JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

JETSON GREEN

Florida Company Designs and Builds Shipping Container Homes. The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds.

JETSON GREEN

Wow, check out this stunning, prefab home located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Just like the Marfa Weehouse, a home we talked about a long time ago, this home was designed by Alchemy Architects.The Johnson Creek weeHouse is a 2,200 sf retreat home consisting of the main living area for daily activities and a small tower for less intenstive activities, like sleeping.

JETSON GREEN

IDEKIT’s first home is 3,000 square feet with four-bedrooms. It cost about $175,000 to build and turns container design on its head. Rather than feature the exposed containers on the exterior, the containers are exposed on the inside — you can even see serial numbers, dents, and corrugated detail in several places throughout the home.

JETSON GREEN

The 900-watt generator has carbon fiber blades and a rotor diameter of seven feet. The turbine weighs 47 pounds, cuts in at 7.5 mph, and produces 100 kWh/per month in 12 mph winds. Whisper 100, like other models in the Whisper line, is suitable for powering things like batteries, remote homes, and water pumps.

JETSON GREEN

An Efficient Coolerado in the Wild. About two days after hearing that Coolerado had won the Western Cooling Challenge for the hybrid commercial version of this technology, I saw this on a newly built home. This is what appears to be the M50 Coolerado . Coolerado says they have the most efficient air conditioning system made — it uses

up to 90

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

JETSON GREEN

Florida Company Designs and Builds Shipping Container Homes. The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds.

JETSON GREEN

Wow, check out this stunning, prefab home located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Just like the Marfa Weehouse, a home we talked about a long time ago, this home was designed by Alchemy Architects.The Johnson Creek weeHouse is a 2,200 sf retreat home consisting of the main living area for daily activities and a small tower for less intenstive activities, like sleeping.

JETSON GREEN

IDEKIT’s first home is 3,000 square feet with four-bedrooms. It cost about $175,000 to build and turns container design on its head. Rather than feature the exposed containers on the exterior, the containers are exposed on the inside — you can even see serial numbers, dents, and corrugated detail in several places throughout the home.

JETSON GREEN

The 900-watt generator has carbon fiber blades and a rotor diameter of seven feet. The turbine weighs 47 pounds, cuts in at 7.5 mph, and produces 100 kWh/per month in 12 mph winds. Whisper 100, like other models in the Whisper line, is suitable for powering things like batteries, remote homes, and water pumps.

JETSON GREEN

An Efficient Coolerado in the Wild. About two days after hearing that Coolerado had won the Western Cooling Challenge for the hybrid commercial version of this technology, I saw this on a newly built home. This is what appears to be the M50 Coolerado . Coolerado says they have the most efficient air conditioning system made — it uses

up to 90

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

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The LVL is about 25 x 60 feet and has approximately 1,453 square feet. Included in the floor plan is an open living room, dining room, and kitchen, as well as three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and some closets. If you're in the market, pricing for the LVL starts at $42,950. The open house is on September 4, 2010, from 10:00 – 4:00 pm, and the

JETSON GREEN

Ukrainian engineer Max Gerbut has just unveiled the prototype of PassivDom, which is a passive tiny house with many intriguing features. PassiveDom was built using 3D printing technology, and according to Max, it is the first completely autonomous house in the world, since it does not require any fuel combustion of any sort, no matter where it is placed i.e. not even in an Arctic climate.

JETSON GREEN

3. Atira Women’s Resource Society Housing Development. ++. This three-story housing development was built out of 12 recycled shipping containers, and is comprised of 12 studio units, each with a net living area of 280 – 290 square feet. The units are all completely self-contained, and are equipped with a bathroom, kitchen and an

en-suite

JETSON GREEN

Wow, check out this stunning, prefab home located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Just like the Marfa Weehouse, a home we talked about a long time ago, this home was designed by Alchemy Architects.The Johnson Creek weeHouse is a 2,200 sf retreat home consisting of the main living area for daily activities and a small tower for less intenstive activities, like sleeping.

JETSON GREEN

The July/August issue of Dwell brings us this beautiful desert home in Pioneertown, California (not too far from Three Junipers, actually). The home was designed by architect Lloyd Russell for Jim Austin, an entrepreneur who wanted something simple. The functional home of 1,600 square feet is what Austin calls, “the ultimate desert structure.”

JETSON GREEN

The Guardian just published an interesting article about the world's first Active House . An Active House, as compared to a super low-energy Passive House, is a highly efficient home that captures more energy than the occupants need for heat and power. In particular, this Denmark Active House should generate enough electricity over 30

years to

JETSON GREEN

This is The Beach Box, a shipping container house in the dunes of Amagansett, New York, off Montauk Highway. The home is believed to be the first in the Hamptons to be built from shipping containers and was developed by Andrew Anderson with six-modules from New York-based SG Blocks (the same company behind the Harbinger House).

JETSON GREEN

34 Stunning LEED Platinum Projects. Update – 12/29/08: added one more that’s now going for Platinum. There’s so much innovation in the green building space, it’s pretty hard to keep up with it all. I mean, check out these articles below.

JETSON GREEN

A couple months ago, we mentioned Blue Sky Homes, as well as the prototype project of the Blue Sky Homes’ Building System. As the story goes with prefab, a short eight (8) weeks after installing the footings, the prototype is now complete. Dave McAdam, owner of the Yucca Valley prototype, sent me these images of the completed home —

it’s

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

Ultra-Thin Super Insulation with Aerogel. Despite the fact that we are now living in the 21st century, aerogel insulation seems like a material out of science-fiction. It is the lightest solid known, although by volume it is 99% air. It is breathable, but it doesn't

absorb water. It is

JETSON GREEN

The design of these units is also totally flexible, so any of the appliances you don’t need can be switched out and replaced by the ones you do. The unit also comes in a variety of finishes, including dark oak, light oak and white. Prices start at $3,483 for the basic version and go up to $4,645. They’re currently only available in

Europe

JETSON GREEN

Florida Company Designs and Builds Shipping Container Homes. The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds.

JETSON GREEN

3. Atira Women’s Resource Society Housing Development. ++. This three-story housing development was built out of 12 recycled shipping containers, and is comprised of 12 studio units, each with a net living area of 280 – 290 square feet. The units are all completely self-contained, and are equipped with a bathroom, kitchen and an

en-suite

JETSON GREEN

The Guardian just published an interesting article about the world's first Active House . An Active House, as compared to a super low-energy Passive House, is a highly efficient home that captures more energy than the occupants need for heat and power. In particular, this Denmark Active House should generate enough electricity over 30

years to

JETSON GREEN

3716 Springfield House by Studio 804, LEED Platinum and Off the Grid. This is the first of a new series of articles from Robert McLaughlin, founder of House Virescent and co-founder of KCmodern, who will report on green building efforts in Greensburg, Kansas and Kansas City. Studio 804, the graduate level design-build studio from the University

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

Ultra-Thin Super Insulation with Aerogel. Despite the fact that we are now living in the 21st century, aerogel insulation seems like a material out of science-fiction. It is the lightest solid known, although by volume it is 99% air. It is breathable, but it doesn't

absorb water. It is

JETSON GREEN

The design of these units is also totally flexible, so any of the appliances you don’t need can be switched out and replaced by the ones you do. The unit also comes in a variety of finishes, including dark oak, light oak and white. Prices start at $3,483 for the basic version and go up to $4,645. They’re currently only available in

Europe

JETSON GREEN

Florida Company Designs and Builds Shipping Container Homes. The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds.

JETSON GREEN

3. Atira Women’s Resource Society Housing Development. ++. This three-story housing development was built out of 12 recycled shipping containers, and is comprised of 12 studio units, each with a net living area of 280 – 290 square feet. The units are all completely self-contained, and are equipped with a bathroom, kitchen and an

en-suite

JETSON GREEN

The Guardian just published an interesting article about the world's first Active House . An Active House, as compared to a super low-energy Passive House, is a highly efficient home that captures more energy than the occupants need for heat and power. In particular, this Denmark Active House should generate enough electricity over 30

years to

JETSON GREEN

3716 Springfield House by Studio 804, LEED Platinum and Off the Grid. This is the first of a new series of articles from Robert McLaughlin, founder of House Virescent and co-founder of KCmodern, who will report on green building efforts in Greensburg, Kansas and Kansas City. Studio 804, the graduate level design-build studio from the University

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later

JETSON GREEN

Jetson Green 2016-04-15T16:04:26+00:00. Our mission is to enhance homes (and the lives of people in them) with beautiful design, smart construction, resource conservation, energy efficiency, water savings, healthy air, green technology, and renewable energy. Here are some popular topics we cover on a daily basis: Prefab homes. Single-family

homes.

JETSON GREEN

The LVL is about 25 x 60 feet and has approximately 1,453 square feet. Included in the floor plan is an open living room, dining room, and kitchen, as well as three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and some closets. If you're in the market, pricing for the LVL starts at $42,950. The open house is on September 4, 2010, from 10:00 – 4:00 pm, and the

JETSON GREEN

There are 13 home designs for 150 total homes. You can sponsor a home for $150,000. As much as we'd like to sponsor an entire home in the name of Jetson Green, I'm going to just donate some personally. Maybe some day this blog will get to that point.

JETSON GREEN

3716 Springfield House by Studio 804, LEED Platinum and Off the Grid. This is the first of a new series of articles from Robert McLaughlin, founder of House Virescent and co-founder of KCmodern, who will report on green building efforts in Greensburg, Kansas and Kansas City. Studio 804, the graduate level design-build studio from the University

JETSON GREEN

IDEKIT’s first home is 3,000 square feet with four-bedrooms. It cost about $175,000 to build and turns container design on its head. Rather than feature the exposed containers on the exterior, the containers are exposed on the inside — you can even see serial numbers, dents, and corrugated detail in several places throughout the home.

JETSON GREEN

Off-Grid Container Cabins from $15k. Recent Daniel Sokol sent me an email to share what he’s doing with steel shipping containers for a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins . He can convert a 20-foot unit into a small, comfortable home in as little as 25 days from $15,000. Or he can build a bigger home with adjoining containers

from

JETSON GREEN

The company uses recycled shipping containers to build these prefabricated, or modular homes, which are unique, modern and sustainable and are collectively known as Montainers. The Nomad 192 is made from a single 24-foot high cube shipping container, meaning it has a higher ceiling than standard containers and measures 192

square-feet.

JETSON GREEN

Natural Modern Flat Pack Cabin in Canada. Form & Forest recently announced the completion of their beautiful, proof-of-concept, flat-pack cabin on the banks of the Blaeberry River in Golden, British Columbia. The Pioneer model prefab has 1,740 square feet, a mono pitch roof, 180 degrees of floor-to-ceiling glass, and a smart design with

large

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Earlier this year, the World Record Academy awarded a home in Dillingham, Alaska with the record for the Tightest Residential Building.. In a video that documents the blower door test, the home’s owners and residents, Dr. Tom Marsik and Kristin Donalson, who designed and built the extremely insulated building, explain their motivation to push the limits of green building methods.

JETSON GREEN

The bio-technology startup bioMason, headed by founder Ginger Krieg Dosier, recently introduced an innovative brick that is grown rather than fried.These naturally-grown bricks are made from sand and bacteria, which grow to produce natural cement. The needed building blocks for these bricks are abundant in nature across the globe and can be extracted from waste streams. JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

Ultra-Thin Super Insulation with Aerogel. Despite the fact that we are now living in the 21st century, aerogel insulation seems like a material out of science-fiction. It is the lightest solid known, although by volume it is 99% air. It is breathable, but it doesn't

absorb water. It is

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

The design of these units is also totally flexible, so any of the appliances you don’t need can be switched out and replaced by the ones you do. The unit also comes in a variety of finishes, including dark oak, light oak and white. Prices start at $3,483 for the basic version and go up to $4,645. They’re currently only available in

Europe

JETSON GREEN

The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds. Their designs are aimed primarily at customers who are

JETSON GREEN

3. Atira Women’s Resource Society Housing Development. ++. This three-story housing development was built out of 12 recycled shipping containers, and is comprised of 12 studio units, each with a net living area of 280 – 290 square feet. The units are all completely self-contained, and are equipped with a bathroom, kitchen and an

en-suite

JETSON GREEN

The 900-watt generator has carbon fiber blades and a rotor diameter of seven feet. The turbine weighs 47 pounds, cuts in at 7.5 mph, and produces 100 kWh/per month in 12 mph winds. Whisper 100, like other models in the Whisper line, is suitable for powering things like batteries, remote homes, and water pumps.

JETSON GREEN

The bio-technology startup bioMason, headed by founder Ginger Krieg Dosier, recently introduced an innovative brick that is grown rather than fried.These naturally-grown bricks are made from sand and bacteria, which grow to produce natural cement. The needed building blocks for these bricks are abundant in nature across the globe and can be extracted from waste streams.

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later

JETSON GREEN

An Efficient Coolerado in the Wild. About two days after hearing that Coolerado had won the Western Cooling Challenge for the hybrid commercial version of this technology, I saw this on a newly built home. This is what appears to be the M50 Coolerado . Coolerado says they have the most efficient air conditioning system made — it uses

up to 90

JETSON GREENABOUTPROJECTSTECHNOLOGYSHOPCONTAINER HOMESGREEN HOMES The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

JETSON GREEN

Ultra-Thin Super Insulation with Aerogel. Despite the fact that we are now living in the 21st century, aerogel insulation seems like a material out of science-fiction. It is the lightest solid known, although by volume it is 99% air. It is breathable, but it doesn't

absorb water. It is

JETSON GREEN

JET PreFab Makes a Cool Modern Home. If you take all the benefits of prefab building, combine it with over twenty years of building experience, and mix in pure, relentless coolness, you might just find yourself buying a home from JET PreFab,* and having fun while you’re doing it. At least that’s the plan for JET PreFab, the new

JETSON GREEN

The design of these units is also totally flexible, so any of the appliances you don’t need can be switched out and replaced by the ones you do. The unit also comes in a variety of finishes, including dark oak, light oak and white. Prices start at $3,483 for the basic version and go up to $4,645. They’re currently only available in

Europe

JETSON GREEN

The Lakeland, Florida-based company, New Generation Builders, uses recycled 8 by 20-foot shipping containers, and transforms them into tiny homes or offices. They specialize in providing sustainable, fully functional homes, though they also take orders for custom builds. Their designs are aimed primarily at customers who are

JETSON GREEN

3. Atira Women’s Resource Society Housing Development. ++. This three-story housing development was built out of 12 recycled shipping containers, and is comprised of 12 studio units, each with a net living area of 280 – 290 square feet. The units are all completely self-contained, and are equipped with a bathroom, kitchen and an

en-suite

JETSON GREEN

The 900-watt generator has carbon fiber blades and a rotor diameter of seven feet. The turbine weighs 47 pounds, cuts in at 7.5 mph, and produces 100 kWh/per month in 12 mph winds. Whisper 100, like other models in the Whisper line, is suitable for powering things like batteries, remote homes, and water pumps.

JETSON GREEN

The bio-technology startup bioMason, headed by founder Ginger Krieg Dosier, recently introduced an innovative brick that is grown rather than fried.These naturally-grown bricks are made from sand and bacteria, which grow to produce natural cement. The needed building blocks for these bricks are abundant in nature across the globe and can be extracted from waste streams.

JETSON GREEN

Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later

JETSON GREEN

An Efficient Coolerado in the Wild. About two days after hearing that Coolerado had won the Western Cooling Challenge for the hybrid commercial version of this technology, I saw this on a newly built home. This is what appears to be the M50 Coolerado . Coolerado says they have the most efficient air conditioning system made — it uses

up to 90

JETSON GREEN

This engineered wood building system is made from several layers of solid lumber boards, stacked crosswise and bonded together, providing dimensional stability, strength and rigidity. Replacing concrete and steel with wood as a building material can have a significant impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to live in. (more) By Jetson Green |.

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Absolutely love this design! William Adams says: $450-600 per square foot. Not economical by any means. 1,200 sq ft coupe du monde 2018

says:

JETSON GREEN

Jetson Green 2016-04-15T16:04:26+00:00. Our mission is to enhance homes (and the lives of people in them) with beautiful design, smart construction, resource conservation, energy efficiency, water savings, healthy air, green technology, and renewable energy. Here are some popular topics we cover on a daily basis: Prefab homes. Single-family

homes.

JETSON GREEN

Simple Wooden House is Sustainable in More Ways Than One. Wood Studio House, recently completed by Dom Arquitectura of Spain is energy efficient, prefab, sustainable, and made of wood. It’s hard to ask for more from a home, but this one is also beautifully designed and very cozy. (more) By Jetson Green |. 2015-11-03T10:30:42+00:00.

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IDEKIT’s first home is 3,000 square feet with four-bedrooms. It cost about $175,000 to build and turns container design on its head. Rather than feature the exposed containers on the exterior, the containers are exposed on the inside — you can even see serial numbers, dents, and corrugated detail in several places throughout the home.

JETSON GREEN

The Guardian just published an interesting article about the world's first Active House . An Active House, as compared to a super low-energy Passive House, is a highly efficient home that captures more energy than the occupants need for heat and power. In particular, this Denmark Active House should generate enough electricity over 30

years to

JETSON GREEN

Earlier this year, the World Record Academy awarded a home in Dillingham, Alaska with the record for the Tightest Residential Building.. In a video that documents the blower door test, the home’s owners and residents, Dr. Tom Marsik and Kristin Donalson, who designed and built the extremely insulated building, explain their motivation to push the limits of green building methods.

JETSON GREEN

Brothers Turn an Abandoned Grain Silo Into a Cabin. Brothers Rehan and Josh Nana recently converted an old, disused grain silo into a quaint cabin. The silo was located on their family’s farmland in Missouri, so the new structure is in no way out of place in its surroundings. One of the primary reasons they opted to complete this conversion

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The company uses recycled shipping containers to build these prefabricated, or modular homes, which are unique, modern and sustainable and are collectively known as Montainers. The Nomad 192 is made from a single 24-foot high cube shipping container, meaning it has a higher ceiling than standard containers and measures 192

square-feet.

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WOMAN CONVERTS VAN INTO A COZY FULL TIME HOME Atli, a transit bus driver from Vancouver, Canada has converted a van into a comfortable full-time home. Her main reason for the decision to ditch a regular home for a van home were the rising rents. The home Atli lives in now is a converted 2016 Ford which she nicknamed T-Rex. For insulation they used fiberglass and rigid foam insulation, which aren’t especially sustainable but they are inexpensive.  They also installed a vapour barrier to help prevent condensation from forming, while most of the interior is panelled in wood, which helps keep the interior temperature more comfortable, while also giving the home a more homey feel. The home part of the van is dominated by a large open space which is used as the main living area. There is also a small kitchen, with a two-burner propane stove and a small sink with a water pump. The home also features plenty of storage space.  The kitchen will be complete as soon as Atli installs a bamboo counter and some additional cabinetry.  There is also a closet in this space.

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|2019-09-01T00:10:43+00:00June 25th, 2018|CONTAINER HOMES

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MICRO APARTMENT TURNED INTO A FAMILY HOME WITH TRANSFORMER FURNITURE Using transformer units to make the most of the available space in small and micro apartments is not a new idea, but it’s always nice to see new approaches to it. One such is certainly this renovation by Spanish architect Angel Rico who turned a micro, 215 sq ft (20 sq m) apartment into a family home for three. He installed transformable, multi-functional elements and furniture, which makes this apartment much more spacious and comfortable. The apartment is located right by the ocean, so one of the key considerations was maximizing the view. To achieve this, all the storage spaces, such as the closet, pantry and even the child’s bed have been placed on one side of the tiny space, and hidden inside a wall transformer unit. This wall has more than one layer. A part of it hinges out and reveals many smaller compartments, which are used to store various items to keep them out of the way. The child’s bed can also be hinged down then moved out of the way during the day.

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MICRO TINY HOME IS A MINIMALIST’S DREAM Italian architect and engineer Leonardo Di Chiara recently designed and built a prototype of a micro tiny home, which is seriously small yet still wonderfully functional.  The so-called aVOID tiny house measures just 96 sq ft (9 sq) and is easily towable.  Given its diminutive size, it also presents some unique downsizing solutions. The home rests atop a double-axle trailer and has a wooden frame, metal cladding, and plenty of glazing. The interior is comprised of a single room and a bathroom. To make the most of the available space, most of the furniture is hidden inside the walls. The home features a Murphy-style single bed, which can be pulled down when needed, and stored away during the day. It can also be turned into a double bed. The dining table also features a pull down design and can easily be stowed away when not needed.  There is also a small, but functional kitchenette, which features a sink, a two-burner induction stove, and some shelving for storage. (more…)

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|2019-09-01T00:12:17+00:00February 19th, 2018|Affordable

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TINY HOME DESIGN WITH A HIDDEN BED The tiny home builder Cubist Engineering, which is based in Greenwich, New York has created a very interesting tiny home, which has no standard bedroom. Instead, the bed is stowed away under the ceiling in the living room and lowered with the press of a button when needed. The so-called Sturgis is a 21 ft (6.4 m)-long towable home, and despite its very small size it is quite spacious. Most of the space is gained by not having a standard bedroom, but the rest of the layout was also carefully planned with maximizing the available space in

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HOLLAND TO GET ITS OWN VERTICAL FOREST Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale idea has really taken off. Now the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands will get it’s own vertical forest tower.  Similar buildings have already been built in Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland. The tower in Holland will provide affordable inner-city social housing. The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75 m) tall and have 19 floors. The façade will feature 125 trees, 5,200 shrubs and more than 70 species of plants. These will help cleanse the air, improving its quality, as well as provide a pleasant environment to

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TINY HOME – MICRO CAMPER Living in a 250 sq ft tiny home would be downsizing enough for most people, but Richard Ward of Terraform Tiny Homes from Dallas, Texas recently traded in this “mansion”, as he calls it, for an even smaller home. He spent the last four months traveling the country in this “mansion” and has now traded it in for a 54 sq ft micro

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|2019-09-01T00:14:44+00:00February 16th, 2018|Affordable

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