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Meet Klara Marosszeky. She has been working for 10 years to create viable building material out of…hemp. That wall she’s leaning against? Yep. Made out of hemp. Hemp and lime, pressed into a form. The substance hardens and ta da! You’ve got hempcrete. The advantages of this method are numerous. The building material is resistant [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 12:24 am
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What are the things that you can’t do in a city? You can’t raise livestock (at least, not very easily), you can’t live on an acre or more of land (unless you’re way loaded), and you can’t really grow food. At least not a lot of it – enough to feed an entire population. What [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:08 am
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The Swedish are so cool. Seriously. I think Sweden is an awesome place. Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees. The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 8:37 am
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Yet another post inspired by the fact that someone in my household is addicted to educational television! A recent episode of a show on the Discovery Channel showed a crew put together a Huf Haus in only 5 days. That’s start to finish (framing, windows, caulking, etc) not including wiring or plumbing. That is pretty [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8:25 am
Filed under All Houses, Comes in A Box, Green Houses · Tagged with architect, educational television, Environment, Germany, Greenhouse gas, huf haus, huf house, huf houses, huff, solar energy, windows and skylights