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The Perfect Garden Shed For America: Vostok Cabin

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Perfect Garden Shed For America: Vostok Cabin

Images Credit Atelier Van Lieshout I have often mused that the shedworking movement would never really catch on in America because people are so obsessed with security and wouldn’t leave all that expensive stuff out in a the garden. Dutch design studio Atelier Van Lieshout provides the answer with what Dezeen calls “a mobile, indestructible dwelling with an armoured shell.” It is made from recycled steel plates reclaimed from boats…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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London Designer Brings Semi-Permanent Inflatable Buildings to Market

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on London Designer Brings Semi-Permanent Inflatable Buildings to Market

Image courtesy of Airclad.com Need a spare room, but only for a few months? Want to make your outdoor jacuzzi an indoor one for the winter? Thanks to Airclad, by Inflate , now you can. The London based designer, which has been producing temporary inflatable structures (marketed for events and conventions) since 1995, is now going permanent and semi-permanent. The Airclad line is designed for those interested in an extra room, but want to avoid the permanence and carbon footprint that comes with building conventional structures. If you don’t like it, just deflate it…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NewMerino is Traceable, Ethical Australian Merino Wool

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(all photos NewMerino) For well over 100 years Australia’s prosperity was inextricably lined to the export of wool, and in particular, Merino wool. We even had phrase for it: “Riding on the Sheep’s Back.” But in the ’60s wool’s economic dominance was displaced by the likes of coal and iron ore. Years of drought have also taken their toll. But possible one of the more obvious hurdles to growth of the Australian wool industry has been the high-profile anti-mulesing campaign by US-based group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Succumbing to such marketing pressure the industry … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prefab Is So 19th Century: Iron Prefabs Shipped ‘Round The World

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Living Steel commissioned an interesting article on the history of steel and iron prefabs. Professor Miles Lewis explains how Britain shipped wrought iron and corrugated steel houses to California and Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s, when housing was in short supply. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Another Reason Modern Green Prefab Is Tough: Construction Financing

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Installing prefab in Sweden. Photo credit: Haninge I was intrigued by a recent post from prefabber Blu Homes about construction financing. They wrote: “The homeowner must procure construction financing – a short term, interest only loan that will give the homeowner the funds to pay Blu and the site contractor the costs of construction. ” Really? I didn’t know you could get construction financing for prefab. In fact, this was one of the biggest problems… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Friggebod Fun: MiniHouse From Add-A-Room

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Onen So much of what we build is a response to regulation; from garden sheds to modular homes, it is the rules that define the forms. Swedish Housing Minister, Birgit Friggebo exempted buildings under 150 square feet from the building codes; Her name will live forever in the explosion of lovely little cabins that bear the name Friggebod. The latest we have seen is the Minihouse 1 from Add-a-Room , designed by Lars Frank Neilsen of OneN. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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India Goes Prefab (PHOTOS)

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All images courtesy of Design Flute “Plug-in living” is coming to India, in the guise of what design blog Design Flute is calling India’s first prefab green villa. Designer Pinakin Patel calls it the Hara Villa- Hara being Hindi for “green.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lumenhaus From Virginia Tech Wins Solar Decathlon Europe

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

image via inhabitat inhabitat cheers USA! USA! as Virginia Tech wins the Solar Decathlon over some tough competition. It is a surprising win for a number of reasons; the unit was in the Solar Decathlon 2009 and did not win there. To my eye, it was over-teched, with its aerogel walls electrochromic glass and ground source heat pump for an 800 square foot unit- serious engineering overkill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Emerging Ghana wins Open Source House competition: Local, Modular & Efficient (Video)

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Last year, Enviu , known for the sustainable dance floor and club , launched the Open Source House project , a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects participated, was to design an affordable, flexible and sustainable house for people living in poor housing conditions in Ghana.

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Hybridcore Homes May Be the Best of Both Worlds Between Prefab and Site Built

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

TreeHugger has waxed ecstatic over the benefits of prefabricated housing as a way of delivering better quality with less waste and energy, and we hoped at a lower price, yet somehow the industry never delivered what it promised. There were a couple of problems that were never resolved:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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