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. 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). “While the home may be of a size what many people would generally attribute to a cabin or 'weekend' home, it maintains the spatial proportions that are ample and comfortable enough to accommodate two people,” Allen and Trefz told us. Source: Bioi via ArchDaily. 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. 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.
More shipping container houses here Containers of Hope by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture: “Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape. It was important for me to provide them with the sunrise, the sunset, the spectacular views, and overall try and create a feeling of comfort and home. Photos by: Andres Garcia Lachner. Memorial of Light on the Behance Network. STEPHEN GREEN ARCHITECTURE | Just another WordPress site. 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. 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: - Glazed doors of a house of the 60´s by Horacio Borgheresi that originally belonged to a patio, became the main facade of the new housing. - Eucalyptus and native rauli parquet floors of a house of the 70´s by Larraín, Swinburn and Covarrubias, which became the main coating.