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It’s Your Average Off-Grid Shipping Container Home—Just Set on a Tall Metal Tower

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This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. My engineer designed the foundation, stair system, container platform, balcony and lower deck. There was a foundation inspection, electrical inspection and a final inspection.

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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

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The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner. The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views. Rogelio Rojas Castro Structural engineering: Ing.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. Strategic window sizes were used to help make the building energy-efficient Beyond helping to finance the project, Foundation Communities has pledged to pay the energy bills for the building.

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Copper-clad bamboo "petals" envelop meditation space in Bali by Ibuku

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Lumi Shala is covered in shiny copper shingles Designed to convey a feeling of lightness and connection to nature, the studio space is enveloped by a layering of bamboo forms, designed in collaboration with Kul Kul Farm , Bamboo Pure and structural engineering firm Atelier One.

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A Retreat in the Mountains of Central Mexico Sources 100% of Its Water From the Sky

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Each of its three structures—a residence, artist’s studio, and bath house—features a catchment with a reservoir system that purifies harvested rainwater. The main residence takes the form of a pavilion that allows for outdoor use year-round, with over two-thirds of the building footprint dedicated to covered exterior space.

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Statement-Making Louvers Keep This Renovated Australian Home Cool and Secluded

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Emblematic of its style, the house, set on a sandstone foundation, retains its Federation character to the street: An asymmetrical, white-painted weatherboard exterior maintains the civic optimism of the period through fine timber details and fretwork.

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Ross Barney Architects encloses NASA testing facility in unique copper-concrete panels

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It has a structure made of concrete mixed with copper This included the creation of a special concrete mixed with copper for a series of precast walls erected for a radar antenna-testing lab, which stands as a siloed element taller than the rest of the glass-clad building with a separate foundation.

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