Modern housing designers nowadays are not concerned about the design itself anymore, but also they are concern about how they can help save the earth through their designs. The Villa Bio by Enric Ruiz-Geli is just one of the modern houses of today that has various eco-friendly features. And one of the Villa’s eco-friendly feature [...]
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Building a home is now becoming affordable, easy and sustainable. The House Arc by Joseph Bellomo is just one of the great examples of today’s prototype. The designer’s successful Bike Arc inspires this wonderful modular house, and is designed for off-grid living.
This modular home is made from tubular steel armature and is seated above the [...]
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The Refract House is an 800 square foot zero energy home created by a hundred of students from Santa Clara University together with the California College of Arts in participation to the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The refract house has a designed like a bent tube to allow the entry of light inside [...]
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Right at the heart of New York City, people are expected to be more aware of the modern designs than with the environmental effects. However, you will definitely be surprised with the homeowners Dominique Camacho and Gary Hirschkron that turned a synagogue into a beautiful penthouse that they now owned. The couple kept the eco-friendly [...]
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Casa Tolo is designed with the purpose of using as a vacation house for the architects wife, children, and cousins, the Casa Tolo is located on one of the steep hill northern Portugal. Normally, architects use to fight with natural environment, however Siza did in contrast. He embraced it and uses the slope as the [...]
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