This week we have seen some creative adaptations of unused space. First was Fakro’s “Live Between Buildings,” which proposes to use the unlit spaces between buildings to make a separate building. Today we look at a subterranean home made in.
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Dutch roof window manufacturer Fakro doesn’t like wasted space. To prove this, they have conceived the “Live Between Buildings” concept, designed to utilize “blind walls” between buildings–i.e. the passageways between buildings that lack windows on both neighboring buildings. By making.
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A while back, we looked at Steve Sauer’s 182 sq ft, self-built “pico-dwelling” in Seattle. The tiny triplex, built in a converted storage area, has the level of intricacy you’d expect from a Boeing engineer (Sauer’s day job). Though we have.
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Add Madison, Wisconsin to New York City and San Francisco to cities with major housing shortages. The 240K person midwestern city boasts a housing vacancy rate of 1.8%–four times lower than the national average. And like many cities with too.
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We are very excited to announce a micro-apartment project going up in São Paulo, Brazil. Many details are still being worked out, but we can tell you a few things: LifeEdited, Inc would serve as a specialty consultant to Brazilian.
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We’ve covered a number of mobile homes here on LifeEdited, and we must confess a little judgment about this mode of living transport. While their interiors are always paragons of efficiency and clever design, their dependence on fossil fuels and.
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There have been many variations on the theme of converting shipping containers into homes, but few are as elegant or practical as this one by Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society. The just completed building contains 12 studio units, sized from 280-290 sq ft,.
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You’re not a true minimalist if you don’t have a tiny house fantasy. You have it all mapped out: You’ll quit your job. Next, you’ll get rid of your current home and all your possessions except a spoon, pocket knife.
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We are design wonks here at LifeEdited. We swoon at Parisian micro flats with experimental lighting schemes, lust over obtuse Japanese rental properties and dig all–well, “many”–varieties of experimental architecture and design. But we also know these things cost money to build;.
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These infographics from Shrink That Footprint show the average new house sizes across the world in 2009. Despite the American penchant to do everything a little bit bigger, it’s the Australians who claim the prize for world’s largest homes. Without.
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