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ARK

Project Location: Glebe, NSW, Australia
Building Type: Residential – 4+ BR
Project Descripton: Pre-fab 400+ sq m house that floats, resists earthquake, bushfire, tempest and is assembled by two men in a couple of days - no tools required, cheaper than comparable sized conventional housing

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casa

Project Location: NYC, NY, United States
Building Type: Homeless Shelter
Project Descripton: casa project: everyone has the right to have a home and cover the basic needs of shelter and food for a healthy life.

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FLEX Modular Kiosk

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Storage Facility, Retail – Single Occupancy, Restaurant/Café, Marketplace - Outdoor, Lighting-Outdoor , …
Project Descripton: The design concept of FLEX Modular System is to re-inteprete the notion of an affordable yet attractive and functional kiosk system. The Kiosk system is easily transportable, reconfigurable and expandable by the community to fit their needs as the....

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centro de salud verde jiquipilco

Project Location: jiquipilco, estado de méxico, Mexico
Building Type: Health Clinic
Project Descripton: Main goals of the project: To desing, and build a straw bale prototype model for a Health Care Centre. Using local materials and a community workshop in order to build the elements of the project: Ferro cement water tank for rain water....

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Sparsha: The Design Contest

Project Location: Katra, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Universit, India
Building Type: Homeless Shelter
Project Descripton: Sparsha is a contest being organized for the student community of India BY Anusha Narayanan And Avikal Somvanshi, proud students of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, in response to their success in being awarded the 2008 Berkeley....

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life container

Project Location: porto, matosinhos, Portugal
Building Type: Transitional Shelter, Temporary Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: competition for a self-sufficient and sustainable mobile village for a nomad community. the goal of the competition was to design a mobile village whose purpose was to travel along a defined itinerary, informing locals about the need to take action....

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Zero Energy Home

Project Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: Program
Our clients desire a flexible, urban, and green home for two that can accommodate their extended family and friends.

Site characteristics
This house will be built on a double lot of 40' x 77'. The lot is situated 3....

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Bayonnais Medical Clinic

Project Location: Cathor, Bayonnais, Haiti
Building Type: Health Clinic
Project Descripton: This Medical Facility will be the first to serve the Bayonnais region of Haiti. The population of Bayonnais is approximately 80,000 and is often described as the poorest region in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Currently, the....

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Survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration makes earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, basically it is the old balloon frame put together with modern metal wood connectors. It is the wood connectors that make these buildings earthquake and hurricane proof. ....

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Las Hormigas Women's Cooperative Kitchen

Project Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Building Type: Restaurant/Café
Project Descripton: Light straw clay building wrap system around existing CMU block walls; new pallet truss roof, new metal rain shield, straw insulation; solar water heater; Watson Wick for kitchen waste water

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