Tag: residential
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Micro Apartment Transformed Into a Comfortable Dwelling
Former airplane interior designer, Steve Sauer, worked hard to transform a tiny closet space in Seattle into a functional apartment, which is also known as a “pico dwelling.” The apartment measures only 182 square feet, yet consists of two beds, a full kitchen with a dishwasher, a bathroom with a shower, and a soaking tub…
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Student Housing Made From Shipping Containers
Architect Christian Salvati of Marengo Structures built the house on Vernon St. in New Haven, Connecticut out of six recycled shipping containers. The house was co-designed by architect Edsel Ramirez, and they used 45-foot containers, into which holes for doors and windows, as well as some of the interior walls to make rooms, were cut…
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Cost-Effective Net-Zero Houses Built in a Matter of Days
The Santa Monica-based award-winning green design studio Minarc partnered up with Habitat for Humanity, and a local non-profit firm Restore Neighborhoods LA to design and build affordable, net-zero energy prefabricated homes in the low-income areas of South Los Angeles. Together they built 3 homes, which were all built on vacant lots in the poorest neighborhood…
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First LEED Platinum Home Built in North Shore Area of Chicago
A single family home in Glencoe, Illinois recently received the LEED Platinum for Home certification. This 4,800-square-foot house is the first new home in the North Shore area of Chicago to receive this rating. Despite its many green and sustainable features, the residence looks like a traditional house from the outside. The home also boasts…
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Tiny Unfolding NYC Apartment Gives the Impression of Spaciousness
The cost of apartment space in large urban cities is at an all time high, and one way to combat the rising prices is to opt for apartments with space-saving, unique interiors. The Unfolding Apartment, designed and built by the architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Michael Chen Architecture PLLC, is perhaps the perfect…