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Eco House Design: self-sufficient house in California
Design and environmental awareness. This is the commitment of the two American architects Linda Taalman and Alan Koch who made on the Mojave desert plateau, northeast of Los Angeles, a home-based and sustainable reduction of energy requirements by maximizing, through a system of large windows, sunlight. The project, called itHouse, is born in Los Angeles with the desire to bring as much as possible people to live a natural and sustainable. Thanks to a system of solar panels are producing their ...
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Bucerius House by Richard Neutra
High above Lake Maggiore, House Bucerius has a breathtaking view exploited by Richard Neutra to the full. This huge villa, which cost a small fortune to build, was the most elaborate one ever erected by Neutra in Europe and can be regarded as a milestone of his later work. It has been painstakingly and exquisitely [...] #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 20%; } #gallery-1 img {...
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AS House by Guilherme Torres
Brazilian architect Guilherme Torres designed the AS House in Cornélio Procópio , Brazil. . An expressive architecture in terms of volume that takes advantage of the existing topography, structurally and economically wise. Through a pragmatic, but also poetic perspective, the young Brazilian architect shows how neat and rational an elegant house can be. “Less is more” [...] CONTEMPORIST
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BL House by Studio Guilherme Torres
Studio Guilherme Torres have designed the BL House in Londrina, Brazil. . Description from the architect: Adapting the house structure to a narrow lot in a condominium in Londrina, Brazil was the greatest challenge of this building designed by Guilherme Torres. In order to take advantage of the natural characteristics of the land in relation [...] +Via CONTEMPORIST
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Prefab Green Homes: CasaB2
The prefabricated house CasaB2 is a project of StudioFRA certified in Class A, designed with advanced prefabrication systems that allow a fast implementation with a very low cost. The house is built to respect nature and to minimize costs and consumption, according to the oriented north-south axis, so as to have the roof pitch angle directly to the south to maximize work of the PV system. The squares of the plant grow in three dimensions by creating two opposing volumes for volume and shapes. W...
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Hillside House With Creative Terracing and A Small Lap Pool
Villacasa residence in Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles is designed by Space International architecture studio. It’s located on the hillside site that allows to make the most from its compact size with creative terracing and mixing indoors and outdoors. A small lap pool located on the downslope end of the lot doubles as a retaining wall and…Continue Reading… +Read More on DigsDigs
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