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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

thousands of reclaimed bricks shape rural residence amid agricultural fields in india

Compact rural house in Tamil Nadu built resource-consciously using accumulated savings and context-driven recycled materials, adaptable design, efficient single-story plan, and climate-responsive features.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

These $1,000 bamboo homes survived a major earthquake

When a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar last year, roads buckled and thousands of buildings collapsed. But a group of small, ultra-low-cost homes made from bamboo survived without any damage. Finished just days before the quake, the houses are emergency shelters for some of the millions of people displaced by Myanmar's ongoing civil war. Myanmar-based architecture studio Blue Temple worked with its spinoff construction company Housing Now to make the simple prefab homes as low-cost as possible while still able to withstand natural disasters.
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