Tag: affordable
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Students Find Affordable Living Solution for Los Angeles
Finding affordable dwellings in large urban areas has become quite difficult in recent years. Los Angeles is also facing this problem and to combat it, the mayor wants to build 100,000 new affordable housing units by 2021. A team of UCLA students and faculty from the college’s architecture and urban design group cityLAB, have recently…
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Tiny Homes on Rails
Small House on Tracks is the name of a unique new tiny home project, which was envisioned by Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota, two architecture students from Poland. They designed a number of tiny homes, which are also expandable, and which can be moved around on the rail tracks at the Gdańsk Shipyard. The tiny…
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Another Great Temporary Shelter Design
The so-called Temporary Shelter was recently constructed in Nepal to offer the displaced a basic, and flexible shelter that can be built by unskilled workers in three days. Like IKEA’s Better Shelter, S House and other such affordable solutions for the poor or those affected by natural or other disasters, Temporary Shelter should go a…
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A Very Cozy Tiny Treehouse Retreat
Geoff de Ruiter, a PhD student at the University of Northern British Columbia recently built his own tiny treehouse, which he called the Raven Loft. It is suspended 17 feet (5.1 m) off the ground and it cost him just $8,200 to complete, mostly since a lot of the materials used to construct the tree…
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Unique Tiny Home
More and more people are downsizing to a tiny home, and it is nice to see the designs of such homes becoming more unique as well. The Toybox Tiny Home was designed and built by Frank Henderson and Paul Schultz and its exterior and interior design really place it apart from other tiny homes out…