Only 29 hours were required to install this “off-the-shelf” Seattle prefab home that packs a plethora of energy efficient features. The project features passive design strategies to maximize natural daylighting and temperature control. The home incorporates ductless mini-split heating/cooling units—one in every room—that use inverter-driven compressors to provide exact control 100% of the time. Perhaps...
Low Cost Guest House Of A Shipping Container
People today are concerned about nature and materials that we waste. That’s why reusing old materials, things, transforming or recycling them is so popular – in every sphere, including design and architecture. Poteet Architects have created many objects of repurposed things and materials showing us how they can be adapted and transformed into sustainable solutions...
Absolutely Eco-Friendly And Recycling Furniture For Any Home
Green way of thinking is what we need today because the ecology is getting worse. Philips Design Probes presents Microbal Home. It’s a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting, human waste and healthy lifestyle. It’s a cyclical ecosystem that is closed, it acts as a biological machine to...
Black-And-White Orangery To Enjoy The Nature
This black-and-white orangery is located in Sweden. It’s a metal construction of 24 square meters with wooden floor and black façade. The designer is the owner, Agneta Enzell, and she put the orangery in several meters from her own house. She says that it’s a unique place for listening to the rain or enjoy the...
Sustainable Clad House Blended with Surroundings – Hidden House by Standard
Hidden House by Standard Architecture is located on a serene 7-acre site in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles. It’s a great example of open to outdoors house. It features two courtyards. The living space opens up to one of them, while the second one looks out over the city. The 3500 square feet...
Very Modern Yet Not Minimalist House Design – Skywave House by Coscia Day
Who said that very modern house design should be minimalist? Skywave House by Coscia Day shows that isn’t exactly true. The 2,250 square feet house and is set on a 40 ft wide suburban lot in Venice, California. It’s main distinctive feature is a sculptural roof that reminds a breaking wave, which is suspended in...
The Smart Home 2010 – Renovated Chicago’s Greenest House
The Smart Home is the Chicago’s greenest house located on the ground of the Museum of Science and Industry. It’s opened to public from 2008 but recently was renovated by Midwest Living. The home is designed to reflect the lifestyle of an empty-nester couple and features soft, organic textures and colors fused with a contemporary...
Three Level House for Three Family Generations
Designed by Berkley-based McGlashan Architecture this house is located on a beautiful hillside in Marin Country, near San Francisco. Its form and color are inspired by the hillside landscape. It has three levels and three generations of an extended family live there. Roofs of all three levels are planted with drought resistant and native gardens....
House Renovation Which Achieved The Highest LEED Rating in the Area
LEED for Homes is a green home certification system for assuring homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-efficient and healthy for occupants. This house renovation is done Georgia and it achieved the first LEED Platinum certification in the area. It serves as a model of greener living for the entire community and...
Remodeled House With Large Manmade Pond Near It
Located on the peninsula south of San Francisco, this house sits on an internal suburban flag lot. It was build in 1950s but recently remodeled. A cool manmade pond that was there before become the thing that add a feeling of being at a vacation retreat to every day life. The site consist of four...