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The Amazing Window-Cleaning Robot Winbot! The Amazing Window-Cleaning Robot. Déglon : professional French cutlery - cooking knife - sharpening machine. Home Ideas - Bringing Natue Inside. Fusing modern function and aesthetics with traditional Korean style, this stunning residence in Gangnam features a vast interior courtyard partially covered by a cantilevered roof.

Home Ideas - Bringing Natue Inside

The secret garden feel satisfies the needs of an owner who wanted fresh air and an open feel while maintaining privacy, making use of land reclaimed from a demolished structure. Meandering through the home is like getting lost on a wooded path, with interior spaces leading to the outside and back again. Ga on Jai Jouse by Iroje KHM Architects was built about twenty years ago for a housing expo in the city, and incorporates four traditional Korean architectural elements: the use of ‘ru’ pillars, the ‘madang’ inner court, the ‘cheoma’ cantilevered roof and the ‘doldam’ stone masonry wall. The pillars raise part of that cantilevered black roof to provide scenic views of the mountains without sacrificing the sense of disconnectedness from the outside world. Pearson Design Group. Building With Cob - Got Dirt? Use it! Thanks!

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Život - Vesti - Zavirite u neobičnu kuću otpornu na cunami (FOTO) Contain This! 15 Amazing Shipping Containers Used As.... Shipping Containers are much more than just a fad now!

Contain This! 15 Amazing Shipping Containers Used As....

As you can see, people have realized all over the world that the cost of a used shipping container is much much cheaper than the cost of fabricating steel walls, and they are plentiful everywhere! 15 Interiors 15 Personalized Designs Built To Surroundings. Okay, now that you've picked out what kind of real estate you want to live on, and also what type of home you would like to build, it's time to talk interiors.

15 Interiors 15 Personalized Designs Built To Surroundings

Depending on what type of exterior you have, you still have all sorts of stylistic choices for how you will build. If you are working with traditional boxed surfaces like sheet rock, then that's commonplace in America, but may not be so common in places that build with earthen homes. If you build an earth home like cob, strawbale, ferro cement, or carved stone cave style, you can build your furniture into your walls and floors instead of buying or making it. Notice in the style below what looks to be a combination of wooden ceiling and ferro cement, the beautiful curvature that can be created. Log Homes and Log Home Floor Plans Cabins by Golden Eagle Log Homes. Pocafarina Residence by Hidalgo Hartman. In the city of Girona, Spain, Barcelona – based architect Hidalgo Hartman designed this contemporary single family house.

Pocafarina Residence by Hidalgo Hartman

Description by Hidalgo Hartman The house is situated on a corner plot with some good views over the distant landscape. In order to enjoy these views and avoid the neighboring buildings, the ideal configuration for the house was to create a compact form of cross which is placed at the center of gravity of the plot. The four wings are oriented in a way that ensures the selected views from inside the house.The whole volume is supported by four pillars and cantilevers out over the garden level at a hight of one meter. The pillars itself are based on the lower ground floor of 8x8m that contains access to housing, the porch, garage and laundry.

Visit Hidalgo Hartman Published 9 months ago by Mat Watts in Architecture. Why And How To Install A Green Roof. Installation of a green roof provides a suite of advantages, to include: Stormwater management: reduces stormwater runoff so there is less water directed into storm drains Green roofs will intercept between 15 and 90% of rooftop runoff.

Why And How To Install A Green Roof

Absorption of runoff into a green roof system will vary between 50-60% and is related to the type of growing medium and plant cover variability. \ variation in absorption rates can be as great as 50% based on differences in temperature, wind, evapotranspiration rates and plant uptake Visit our Water Quality Impactssection to find out how how land disturbance that creates impervious surface and other human activities can cause increased runoff and pollutant loads to streams and lakes.Energy conservation – reduces the need for energy to heat house in winter and cool in summer. The vegetation layer and trapped air help insulate a buildings interior, providing up to 25% additional insulation when the soils are dry to slightly most. 30 Insanely Easy Ways To Improve Your Kitchen. Hacienda Ja Ja - asian - exterior - other metro - by Lake Flato Architects.

The client approached the architects and asked for a highly sustainable home; the architects, who are committed to the 2030 Challenge, designed a home that is LEED Platinum certified.

Hacienda Ja Ja - asian - exterior - other metro - by Lake Flato Architects

In brief, the 2030 Challenge is a goal that all new and renovated buildings be carbon neutral by the year 2030. Bal House by Terry & Terry Architects. The Terry & Terry Architects have completed, remodeled and extended a mid-century ranch and turned it into a contemporary home.

Bal House by Terry & Terry Architects

Enjoy! Description by Terry & Terry Architects This project is an addition to and remodel of an existing mid century ranch house. It was designed for a retired couple, who desired a single-story home with open, accessible space. The addition, located in the rear garden area, is connected to the original structure by way of a transparent hallway that allows the garden to extend into the core of the house. Online Room Planner. Creating your new space is easy: Use the Make Room to plan any space in your home with virtually every piece of furniture available at Urban Barn.

Online Room Planner

When your masterpiece is complete you can save your space, email it, or print it out and use it as your shopping list. We have over 40 locations across Canada. Find a location near you. Burnham Design - Portfolio. Torus House: Curved Courtyard-Wrapping Urban Oasis. Privacy and green space can be hard to come by in the city – this house manages to feature both in spades, despite its central location in the Quang Ninh province of Vietnam. Designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects, a fundamental architectural gesture gives shape to the structure and space alike – an upward-spiraling stone building that forms around and within green gardens and roofs.

From the architects: “Circulating flow runs around the courtyard and continues to the green roof, connecting all places in the house. This courtyard and green roof compose a sequential garden, which creates a rich relationship between inside and outside the house.” The result is a series of rooms that look down on the central light well and garden area, or allow residents to walk right out into it or onto the tops of the boundary-defining walls, which are themselves grass roofs. Futuristic water-recycling shower cuts bills by over $1,000. Swedish designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed a shower that recycles waterOrbSys Shower saves more than 90% water and 80% energy while you washIt could save users over $1000 a year and help people living in areas with a shortage of water (CNN) -- In space, astronauts go for years without a fresh supply of water. Floating in a capsule in outer space they wash and drink from the same continuously recycled source.

Rner fridge for integration - Norcool. The Norcool Corner Fridge is the ultimate cooling appliance. Its revolutionary design maximises the most awkward space in your kitchen – the corner. Charlie Hague and Megan Williams told to pull down their 'hobbit home' made entirely out of natural materials. Family of three is made homeless by planning inspector's decisionThey built their home from scratch, but have been ordered to tear it downThe couple admit they built it without first getting planning permissionTheir labour of love was branded 'harmful' to the countryside By Stuart Woledge Published: 19:30 GMT, 1 August 2013 | Updated: 14:12 GMT, 2 August 2013.

TreeHouse Point. Unique Natural Sculptures Blend Layers of Stone with Glass. Tokyo-born artist Ramon Todo creates unexpected sculptures by drawing upon basic, solid materials found in nature. To create each piece, he first locates stones and bricks discovered on personal walks through various landscapes. He then removes segments of the stone, which symbolize the history of the land in which it originated, and replaces it with layers of aesthetically beautiful, polished glass. By blending the two opposite substances, Todo redefines the surface of the materials, creating a new and unexpected texture.

The fragmented matter works closely together to form the rough, yet sparkling, sculpture, and the juxtaposition of the delicate material wedged between layers of hard, solid rock is visually exciting. In each piece, the rock is supported by the glass, redefining a typical understanding of stability and fragility. Ramon Todo at Art Front Gallery via [My Amp Goes to 11] Space-Saving Suspended Bed in a Modern London Apartment. Good urban architectural design takes space and aesthetic into account, allowing them to work in unison, much like this efficient London apartment in Camden. While some compact residences use a modular design to create the visual effect of more space, this particular English home opts to design vertically by featuring a suspended bed overhead.

This innovative apartment allows inhabitants to have more walking room on the ground floor without disrupting the tastefully modern design. The bed hangs above the living area like an elegant, simple balcony with a equally complementing staircase leading up to it. The bed is also situated below a retractable glass skylight that leads to a 500-square-foot rooftop garden. It proves that smaller living spaces don't mean cramped, unattractive environments. It’s a Magical World: Delightful Calvin and Hobbes Bedroom. As children, nearly all of us daydreamed about being able to jump into our favorite cartoons.

For one lucky kid, that dream has almost come true. The Calvin and Hobbes bedroom, designed by Katri Nurmela, is the ultimate kids’ bedroom. The bed is inside of an elevated wooden fort that includes an escape slide. The space under the bed is perfect for hiding, building little nests or inventing new games. Modern Ocean Dream Home by SAOTA, South Africa. GP House by Bitar Arquitectos. The GP House located in Pachuca, Mexico is an entirely contemporary space, designed under linear elements by Mexico City – based Bitar Arquitectos. Tiny London Loft is a Light-Filled, Storage-Rich Dream Home. Sick Of Paying Rent? Just Build Your Own Tiny Palace, Like These Guys Did. Bal House by Terry & Terry Architects. SPOLJA ŠUPA, UNUTRA DVORAC: Pogledajte montažnu kuću iz snova (FOTO) - Extra Cafe Magazin.

Modern High-Rise by Mia Rao Design. Contemporary apartment designed by Mia Rao located in Chicago featuring modern Italian furniture, clean lines, and artistic accents creating a multi-functional space with maximum comfort. INTERVIEW: Ed Mazria Founder of Architecture 2030 Introduces the 2030 Palette. Ed Mazria is the influential environmental architect behind the 2030 Challenge, which aims to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in new construction, and to cut the use of fossil fuels in existing buildings by 50 percent before 2030. Vertical Garden: Home Facade Covered in 25 Kinds of Plants. Unlike its horizontal equivalent, pruning a vertical surface can be a tricky proposition at best, so species selection done from the outset is a crucial key to success. You need rugged and robust plants fit for the region, for starters. Rebelo de Andrade thought carefully about the plants picked for the outside faces of this stunning four-story structure, selecting varieties that would weather well and grow (but not too much!)

Sandwich House: Addition Turns Brick A-Frame to Green Box. Learn How to Decorate Your Living Space. Kandinsky Chair by Tresenvespa. Foldone - Furniture by NOVAE Architecture. Haus am Weinberg - Architecture by UNStudio. XEOS 3D Printer by Stefan Reichert. Cube - Home by Justin Chong. The Contemporary Hillside House by SB Architects.

Wonderwall. Marqueyssac. Ross Cassidy. Interior Scene 000. Boxetti. Part - Washing Machine by Buse Üstün & Fulya Pekserbes. Hidden Air Diffuser by Daniel Pearlman. Jorymon Techblog. Istvan Francer - Fashion Designer - Profile with biography, brands, photos and more on FMD. Christina Murphy Interiors.

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Bookcase Chairs Combine Book Storage & Reading Space. Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News. Architecture - StumbleUpon. Modern Log Furniture Fuses Sliced Trunks & Organic Resins. Interior Moss Tiles Help Grow the Vertical Garden Movement. Projects. AG - Electricity. Gas. Water. Recycling. Services. SURREAL BEACH HOUSE IN DRAMATIC ENVIRONMENT. Tangga House by Guz Architects. Ocean Container Dimensions. The Pierre & Below The Clouds - StumbleUpon.

Bates Masi Architects - Portfolio. Looks like good Triangulo House by Ecostudio Architects - StumbleUpon.