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How to Design a Net-Zero Rainwater-Harvesting Home in the Desert
Arizona’s DesignBuild Collaborative founder Paul Weiner, AIA, is thinking ahead about how to rely year round on only the 12 inches of monsoon rain the Sonoran desert typically gets in July. The Rincon Mountain Residence provides a model. For only the first year, the desert home will access groundwater, while DesignBuild samples and tests rainwater [...]
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A Steel Prefab Treads Lightly on a Desert Floor
Steel is just about the most recyclable building material on earth. You could be well reading this in an office building built with steel originally smelted from iron in Julius Caesars day. So it makes good green sense to build eco prefab houses with steel…
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A Lizard’s Basking Spot at the Desert’s Edge
Here is The Lizard’s house right out of the childrens book – “Need a House? Call Ms Mouse”: Sand – rock – sun and sea.
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