Sustainable house designs

100% Sustainable House Overlooking The Hudson River

100% Sustainable House Overlooking The Hudson River
An architect-turned-falconer considers animals and nature when designing his own home. Overlooking the Hudson River, Allan Shope’s nearly 3,000-square-foot sustainable home features handmade furniture and an undulating floor, all crafted from the site’s felled black walnut trees. Shope and his wife carefully designed an eco-friendly landscape: For instance, they did not fell any tree with... 
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Kate
Sustainable house designs

Sustainable Home Design With Solar Panels And Collectors

Sustainable Home Design With Solar Panels And Collectors
A collaboration between architecture firm Snøhetta, research company SINTEF, Zero Emission Building (ZEB) partner Brødrene Dahl, and Optimera, led to the award-winning Plus House Larvik, which was designed to generate an energy surplus that can power an electric car year-round. The goal was to demonstrate solutions to improve comfort along with consuming low amounts of... 
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Kate
Sustainable house designs

Sustainable House With Raw Stone Exterior

Sustainable House With Raw Stone Exterior
Camel Quarry House is built on the footprint of the burnt out ruin of the original house. The site features great views of natural landscape and blends with it very well thanks to the exterior done in raw stones combined with several wood inserts. Its form is simple – a rugged face reflecting the quarry... 
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Mike
Sustainable house designs

Sustainable House with Large Expanses Of Glass – Flyway View House by Jon Anderson

Sustainable House with Large Expanses Of Glass – Flyway View House by Jon Anderson
The Flyway View House is designed by Jon Anderson Architecture and located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The design’s concept was to maximize views of the bird habitat and to take advantage of solar exposure and passive ventilation. Simple sustainable materials and the thoughtful use of glass blends the indoor and outdoor living spaces. Overhangs protect... 
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Mike
Home design

Vernacular Dry Stone House at The Pyrenees

Vernacular Dry Stone House at The Pyrenees
House at The Pyrenees is designed by Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solà-Morales in a small village nested in the Pyrenees, Canejan, Catalonia, Spain. The vernacular dry stone house is a comfortable residence that have two units on a single envelope. It features amazing views over the valley, while an identical window located on the top... 
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Mike
Modern home designs

Futuristic Home Made Of Corian and Designed by Karim Rashid

Futuristic Home Made Of Corian and Designed by Karim Rashid
DuPont™ Corian® solid surface is one of the most versatile materials in the global marketplace today. There is a lot of furniture done from it nowadays and its amount continues to grow. During Milan Design Week 2010 a project called ‘Smart-ologic Corian® Living’ was presented. It’s done by canadian designer Karim Rashid and happened to... 
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Mike