Monday, June 28, 2010

The Art of Container Construction

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Container Home Construction Explained: Construction with used shipping containers has made incredible advances over the past few years. ...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Arches ~ Mountain Top Retreat

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Photo from Margaret Wakeley, June 23, 2010, Mill Valley CA
Monday, June 21, 2010

Shaded Castle

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Shaded Castle , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan .
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Portal into Paradise: Doorway

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Doorway , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan . See more by IslesPunkFan on flickr.com Would that I could be there, right now.

Vaulted Ceiling

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Vaulted Ceiling , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan . How did they do this? I want to build a vaulted ceiling. Perhaps in Guatemala I can....

Looking Out at the Hudson River

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Looking Out at the Hudson River , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan .

The Cloisters ~ Renaissance (rebirth)

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The Cloisters , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan . What was life like from the twelfth through the fifteenth century? It was the R...

Portal to the Lion

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Portal to the Lion , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan . Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/islespunkfan/3941148203/ Cloisters Mus...

Fuentiduena Apse Window

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Fuentiduena Apse Window , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan .

Cloister from Saint-Gilhem-le-Desert

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Cloister from Saint-Gilhem-le-Desert , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan . This is what I want to build, and where I want to live. ...

Cloister from Saint-Gilhem-le-Desert

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Cloister from Saint-Gilhem-le-Desert , originally uploaded by IslesPunkFan .
Sunday, June 6, 2010

3D Printing Demo by scorch1974

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THIS IS TERRIFIC: We could collect old inkjet printers - saving them from landfills and all the problems they cause - and bring them to Guat...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Global Village Shelters ~ Help for Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, after Hurricane Agatha?

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From: Catherine S. Todd Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:36 PM Subject: Global Village Shelters ~ Help for Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, after Hurric...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Green

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Definitions: Green is also using local materials. Shipping wood from far away is not so green and expensive. Local wood or wood from nearby...
Monday, May 10, 2010

"INSIDE PREFAB" by Princeton Architectural Press

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"INSIDE PREFAB" by Princeton Architectural Press: A book about prefabricated interiors is coming up "Inside Prefab". The...

KatrinaCottages.com

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www.katrinacottages.com/resources/projects.html Katrina Cottage VIII Designed by Steve Mouzon Silver Spring, Maryland Katrina Cottage VIII i...

Haiti House.org

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Haiti House Disaster Relief Page PermaShelter™ 3RD GENERATION DISASTER RECOVERY HOUSING PermaShelter™ represents the culmination of input fr...

A Flatpack Housing Concept for Haiti

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See Harbor Homes response below to "A Flatpack Housing Concept for Haiti" The Design of Everyday Life > Allison Arieff on Febr...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

90° Furniture: A Flatpack Apartment by Lowrien Kaptein

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Imagine how much less shipping, less material is needed when it flatpacks so efficiently, Dutch designer Louwrien Kaptein had designed an en...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Sustain Lane ~ Smart Homes for the Eco-Minded

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Note the comment at the end: " "Our homes need not be 6,000 square foot McMansions, or Mc-Green homes, to serve as quality safe sh...
Friday, April 30, 2010

House Plan in Panajachel by Amilcar Ovalle

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House plan by Amilcar Ovalle (first sketch). EDAOL ESTUDIO Casitas en Caja ~ Little Houses in a Box
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

KapteinBolt ~ 90° Furniture

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90 Degree Furniture: kapteinbolt.nl/main.shtml A flexible interior for an artist, consisting of 4 double panels, each with its own function...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Solar Roads: The Greatest Pipe Dream Yet

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Design Forward Newsletter February 2010, vol. 82 Solar Roads: The Greatest Pipe Dream Yet Over 5.7 million miles of highway stretch across...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Habinet: Architecture + Shipping Containers

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Habitainer project begins as a synthesis of concepts developed during the lasts years at architecture school. It involves a very simple but...

Onil Stove

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In Santiago la Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Solola, contact Acum: (502) 5054-5986. He delivers and installs the Onil stoves. He works with the N...
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Shipping Container Architecture Projects

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Habitainer.com Habitainer project begins as a synthesis of lasts years at ... File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML Habitainer project ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

New York Sun Works ~ Greenhouse Project

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nysunworks.org * About New York Sun Works * The Greenhouse Project * The Science Barge * Press * People * Donate ...

Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology)

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Mitchell Joachim TED2010 Fellowship: Mitchell Joachim The Colbert Report: Mitchell Joachim ... Mitchell Joachim is #83. Architect Magazine c...

3D Printers To Build Houses

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Slashdot | 3D Printers To Build Houses 15 Jan 2007 ... 3D Printers To Build Houses. Posted by kdawson on Mon Jan 15, 2007 04:38 AM from the ...

Rapid Re(f)use: New York City Rebuilt From Its Own Trash

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Inhabit.com by Bridgette Meinhold, 01/29/10 New York City, much like any big city, disposes of a lot of trash — but what if that trash could...