Together with Mira and four others we visited a co-housing/ecovillage project in Poncelle, Province of Luxemburg, Belgium this past weekend.
Imagine a little village in the least polluted areas of Belgium on a sunny day. You arrive around lunchtime and have lunch with Michel, who three years ago had the idea of starting up a co-housing [...]
Domespace is a round house that rotates with the sun. The house can be adapted on the individual needs of its inhabitants and the construction aims to create a long lasting home that creates a low impact on the environment buy enabling a maximum of life quality.
If it is a low impact home in hobbit style, an original treehouse, or a rotating house.
Have a look at this blog entry by Designpedia. Some of the designs are real eyeopeners. Enjoy!
An Earthship is an ‘earth-sheltered’ building that functions autonomously (profiting from sunlight, temperature, wind, soil, landscape and natural resources). Mike Reynolds was one of the first to design and build Earthships in the 1970s. Today there are many thousand Earthships that are build all over the planet. Different shapes, designs and infrastructures make it possible [...]
Project name: Ixuxu
Location: Soto de Rey, Oviedo, Spain
Profile: Ixuxu is a cultural and ecological association that was initially founded out of a growing concern for the erosion of traditional ways of life, the loss of native animal and plant species and the destruction of the environment in general.
“Ixuxu” is derived from an [...]
Location: Eva Lanxmeer, Culemborg, the NetherlandsThe Werf project was initiated in summer 2004 by architect Marien Faas who lives in Eva Lanxmeer. The original purpose of the project was to create a prototype house. The concept was based on four core principles:
1. To create a house were several generations can live together (housing possibilities for [...]
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