Joseph Dupuis’s self-sufficient shipping container cabin built for just $20,000
Ottawa, Canada – Joseph Dupuis Floor Area: 355 sq. ft. Photography: Japhet Alvarez It may look like it’s simply a storage unit from the outside, but these three shipping containers enclose an impressive interior that might just suit your taste! Due to his desire to escape the city for a more peaceful and simpler environment, 29-year old engineer and renewable energy researcher Joseph […]
Summerhouse in Gata Hrunamannahreppur
Gata Hrunamannahreppur, Iceland – ASK arkitektar Year Built: 2003 A home embraced by nature… This summer house located in Iceland is a nice example of a home that draws beauty by working with nature rather than standing out against it. Though the house alone is attractive from the aesthetic perspective, its true beauty comes from the fact that it respects its […]
Daintree Dreaming
Daintree FNQ Australia – M3 Architecture The Daintree is one of Australia’s iconic tropical rainforest regions. It abounds with lush vegetation, cassowaries, tree kangaroos and more than a few salt-water crocodiles! The region is environmentally sensitive, sitting on a spur of the Great Dividing Range that runs down to the Coral Sea, approximately 125 kilometres (80 […]
Family wraps home in greenhouse to warm it naturally
Stockholm, Sweden – Charles Sacilotto and Marie Granmar If a greenhouse protects plants from the cold weather, why not use it to keep your home warm, too? This concept, unusual as it may seem, is what keeps the Sacilotto-Granmar household a lot warmer during the extremely cold Stockholm months without increasing energy consumption! This house-in-a-greenhouse idea was […]
Ultimate glamping?
Anywhere you choose – Nice Architects Slovakia Available late 2015 Size/Area/Volume: 2.55m x 4.45m x 2.25m / 10m3 / 22m3 Do you remember The Blob? No, not the movie, the home office dmvA Architects designed for the client refused building permission for a home office. Ecospace looks remarkably similar but it’s a wonderful example […]
Off-the-Grid Strawbale Cabin
Nevada City, California – Arkin Tilt Architects Built area: 872 sq. ft. (81 m2) Photography: Eric Millette Off-the-grid in every sense, this home, is a great example of sustainability. Heating, cooling, all power and even the water are generated or pumped on-site. It’s a vacation home for a young, active family. From the architect: Located […]
Casa Chipicas
Valle de Bravo, México – Alejandro Sanchez Garcia Arquitectos Total Built Area: 720 m2 (7,776 sq. ft.) Unit size: 180 m2 (1,944 sq. ft) Year built: 2009 Photography: Jaime Navarro Soto The land was a well established garden, subdivided off an existing home. The brief was to make […]
The Commons
Florence Street, Brunswick, Australia – Breathe Architecture Client: Small Giants Builders: Kubic Constructions The Commons hit the drawing board with the goal of being one of the most sustainable residential developments in Australia. Comprising 24 apartments, two artists studios and a cafe, it sold out off-the-plan to eager inner city home-owners. The copper and ironbark […]
Brooks Street is going green…
Venice CA, USA – Bricault design Site area: 490.5 sqm Built area: 352.5 sqm Year built: 2009 Photography: Kenji Arai, Danna Kinsky Clad in sedums and other succulents, the external walls of this extension create the illusion of a floating green cube. But it isn’t just about appearances, the green […]
A Barn Conversion and Extension
Lesponne, France – PPA Built area: 70 sqm Year built: 2010 Photography: Philippe Ruault A vacation home that started as a barn conversion in a verdant valley of the Adour de Lesponne river, in the mountainous region of the Hautes-Pyrénées. But as lovely as it was, it lacked light and […]