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Iconic, efficient Warburg House cost less than $100k to build - Images. Canadian design studio Bioi recently completed this compact home in Warburg, Alberta after being given the challenge to create a contemporary and energy-efficient home for under US$100,000.

Iconic, efficient Warburg House cost less than $100k to build - Images

The result is a simple, open and sustainable home, with a reduced space that holds all of the functionality of a regular sized home. “Working alongside our client, we determined the true necessity of the space that they required,” principal architects Jordan Allen and Ryan Trefz told Gizmag. “Throughout the design phase redundant spaces were eliminated, and non-inhabitable spaces were pushed to an absolute minimum.” View all Without losing the sense of open space the home has been squeezed into an interior space of 576 sq.ft (53.5 sq.m). Containers of Hope, a $40,000 Home by Benjamin Garcia Saxe. By Eric • Jun 16, 2011 • Selected Work Benjamin Garcia Saxe has recently completed the Containers of Hope project with a budget of $40,000.

Containers of Hope, a $40,000 Home by Benjamin Garcia Saxe

Located in San Jose, Costa Rica this container house is the result of a close collaboration between the architect and his clients, who went on to construct the building themselves. The 1,000 square foot home is composed of two 40-foot used shipping containers set together with a raised mid section and clerestory windows. Memorial of Light on the Behance Network. STEPHEN GREEN ARCHITECTURE. Recycled Materials Cottage / Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel. Architects: Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel Location: Panguipulli, Chile Client: Francisca Boher Elton Project area: 112 sqm Project year: 2007 – 2008 Photographs: Courtesy of Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel The house is emplaced in the wooded hillside of the Pirihueico Lake located in 14th.

Recycled Materials Cottage / Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel

Region (Region de los Rios), 70 km from Panguipulli. The difficulty of access determined the restraint of defining the project in multiple modular parts of the capacity of a small truck. The wish and ability of the client to search and purchase demolition materials set a series of elements to incorporate in the new home. These elements were reinterpreted in a new order: