A contemporary, beautiful, and sustainable building design was made by Baenziger Coles. The building is a beach house, designed to fulfill the need of having a retreat house which has a good integration to the outdoor environment, and can support some wonderful outdoor activities. Sustainability is a priority, regarding its connection to the environment.
A sustainable building design was made by a team of architecture and engineering students from AUC . The design is a unique sustainable house, called SLIDES (Sustainable, Livable and Interactive design). This design is aimed to harness the Egypt’s strong solar rays. It is also designed to adopt solar energy to achieve high sustainability. This design was registered for European Solar Decathlon, June 2012.
A great, beautiful, unique, sustainable house was designed by Departure Design and Hammer & Hand for a couple of musicians, Connie and Morgan Curtis. This house is also a open music studio, where the owner can make music and share other arts, like painting, and videography. The construction of this house used a lot of eco friendly building materials. This sustainable design was included on the 2010 Build It Green! Home Tour.
A beautiful house with sustainable design was designed by BVN Architecture, in collaboration with Daniel R. Fox Architects. This house, Bryden House, is located in Quensland’s Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Witta, Australia, in a small clearing, near a dense sub-tropical rain forest. With this condition, attention to the environment during the construction time is a must consideration.
A unique sustainable building design has been created by Martenson and Nagel Theissen Architecture, named JustK House. The sustainable house is located in Tubingen, Germany. Actually, this house is prefabricated wooden house, and designed very carefully to create flexibility and energy efficient. A lot of sustainable features are applied.
A beautiful eco house building, called House Ocho was designed by Feldman Architecture and was built in Carmel, California in 2004 by Groza Construction. This 2,900 sq ft sustainable house is located in an area with seismic activity. The environment is still kept to be natural with vegetations and the beautiful view from the hill. Also, to achieve good sustainability, several features are provided, especially a special green roof.
Last Haiti’s earthquake should be a very bad disaster, destroyed a lot of buildings. Many people lost their houses. Nowadays, a lot of communities, company, etc try to donate or just share a new concept of house to the victims. One of them is an architectural firm from Miami, NC-office. The architect wants to support the re-development, especially on the relief area, in Haiti.
These days, shipping containers have been used as main material for building a green construction, such as houses. Tim Palen Studio is one of buildings constructed from shipping container. It becomes the first permitted shipping container house in the Mojave Desert, near Joshua Tree, California. This prefab home was designed by ecotechdesign, combining the energy and production efficiencies of diverse pre-engineered building and energy systems that working together seamlessly to produce a smooth-running hybrid green home building.
