Floating Island: Self-Sufficient Home Produces Food & Power
Powered by solar panels and sustained by a half-acre plot of farmland, these 12 connected buoyant platforms together form an autonomous off-the-grid dwelling for the couple that built ...
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Space Hacking: Modular Joints Connect IKEA & Everything Else
This kit-of-parts solution draws on the do-it-yourself ethos as well as the modular furniture movement, allowing savvy homeowners to combine off-the-shelf designs with custom connections and ...
Mobile Village: Seattle Teens Build Micro-Homes for Homeless
Serving a nomadic homeless shanty town known as Nickelsville, the Impossible City project involves a group of a teenagers who are creating not just tiny houses but also solar power stations, ...
Adult Erector Sets: Toymaker Now Sells DIY Furniture Part Kits
Combining elements of IKEA ingenuity and their own classic line of modular toys, Meccano (makers of Erector Sets) is now offering a new type of do-it-yourself furniture modeled on their own ...
Sim TV: Interactive 3D Models of Television Show Floor Plans
Be the show drama or comedy, the scenes set by designers for television programs tend to become as familiar as the characters being acted and the stories they tell - with these interactive models ...
Mushroom Materials: DIY Kit Grows Custom Compostable Products
Turning agricultural waste and fungal mycelium into construction materials, this do-it-yourself kit lets you grow your own compostable bio-plastic objects, from packaging furniture to surf boards ...
Home Room: Plug-and-Play Modules Make Instant Living Spaces
Resembling a house turned inside out, the Cubitat is a hybrid architectural and interior design prototype designed to be a modular all-in-one solution that can turn any empty space into your new ...
Open Source Homes: 6 Free Plans Put High-End Design in Reach
Rendering luxury-class house designs accessible to the public is just part of the beauty of Paperhouses, an endeavor to raise the quality of free house plans and and explore the potentials for ...
Town in a Tower: 14-Floor High-Rise Houses Whole Alaskan Hamlet
High-minded Modernists of the mid-1900s envisioned futuristic all-in-one cities in the sky where we would work, place, live and love, but would have been surprised to learn that their ideal has ...
Casa Cargo: Containers Frame Photographer’s Sustainable Home
Shaping both living spaces and modular work studios, a set of shipping containers were combined with a series of green building strategies to make this a place the ultimate home for a versatile ...
