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How to Build Your Own House: A Step-by-Step Guide

Architecture Ideas

Key Considerations Before Building Your Own House The idea to build your own house can be challenging if you don’t begin on a firm foundation. Do regulations give a green flag? Another significant step to building a house is assessing the design’s compatibility with regulations. Let’s see how to build your own house.

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Is Your Tiny House Really a Tiny House?

Dwell

But that doesn’t mean that there are no regulations; it’s more that the square peg of a tiny house, whether it’s movable or not, has to be applied to the round hole of various regulations that often weren’t really designed for them. At first, this led to many tiny house builders working without a foundation, on a wheeled chassis.

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Home, Floor, and Basement Construction: A Comprehensive Guide

The Architecture Designs

From laying the foundation to adding the finishing touches, every step requires careful planning, skilled labor, and attention to detail. This includes removing any vegetation, rocks, or debris and leveling the ground to create a stable foundation. Common types of foundations include slab, crawl space, and basement.

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Laero develops at-home system for turning wastewater into drinking water

Deezen

US tech startup Laero has unveiled a compact water treatment system at Dutch Design Week , which it claims can be installed under any sink to recycle up to 80 per cent of the water. It got me thinking about how this equipment could be scaled down into a compact unit that could be low-cost and easy to install."

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This California Prefab Builder’s Website Lets You Visualize an ADU on Your Property

Dwell

When California began relaxing regulations surrounding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in 2016 , James Connolly wanted to help lower the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area by adding housing stock. So in 2019 he founded Villa, a prefab builder that could handle everything from fabrication, to permitting, to installation.

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Shigeru Ban unveils triple-domed Expo 2025 Osaka pavilion

Deezen

Pavilion to be built partly from paper tubes "For the Osaka Expo 2025, I'm using three different materials for my pavilion," Ban told Dezeen at the launch of an installation designed by the architect in Milan. The reason for using laminated bamboo was to meet Japan's building regulations, Ban explained.

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Technical Details: An Architect’s Guide To Level Thresholds

Architizer

Although it is not a building regulation requirement in renovation projects, some councils may require level thresholds as a planning condition within extensive renovation projects. Building Regulation Requirements. For single new build properties, Building Regulation Part M4(1) and M4(2) must be met. Ground Floor Thresholds.