This concept houses are intended to be used as temporary shelters after an earthquake or big fire. They have an interesting geometric shape and are constructed from renewable materials and can be folded into a lot of shapes.

Ming Tang came up with this concept after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck central China killing 69,000 people. He decided to design a shelter that was easily produced, cheap and environmentally friendly.

The houses are made from a system of bamboo poles that are pre-assembled into rigid geometric shapes. Once constructed, the shelters are then covered by using post and pre-consumer recycled paper. They look interesting like giant spiders but I wonder how will this systems be used in winter or on a big wind…

Nevertheless the idea is good and the head of states should consider it in case of disaster.

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EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) will be built in Singapore with the financial support of their National University and is going to be one of the most eco-friendly towers in the country.

it is going to have 26 floors and will use photovoltaic panels to make energy. But the eco factor of this building will be given by the fact that it will be wrapped in organic local vegetation. It was designed to collect rain-water, both for plant irrigation and for its people needs.

Some of the designers of this amazing tower are T.R.Hamzah & Yeang .

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The mobile home concept by Tom Kundig is named Rolling Huts and is several steps above camping but remains low-tech and low-impact on the environment.
Each house is constructed from a 200 square-foot steel clad box that sits on a steel and wood platform that extends the structure with 240 square feet of covered deck space.

You can enter the hut through a double-paned sliding glass door. The interiors are outfitted in cork and plywood and the exterior of the huts are finished with materials such as steel and plywood.

The huts are grouped as a herd: while each is sited towards the mountains their proximity unites them.

This homes can be used in sensitive areas that don’t allow permanent homes, that’s why the huts are raised a short distance off the ground. Also thy have wheels to be moved.

I really like this idea of mobile home that can be moved from place to place in order to have different views of the landscape.

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When great architects have just a small piece of land to build, then really interesting designs are build. I recently posted a 1 m wide house design from Brazil which was quite amazing.

Now you can see a Tokyo residence by architect Yasuhiro Yamashita which was also built on a small space.

You can check more interesting architecture designs like this here.

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People are starting for looking unconventional resources as potential building materials. The company Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. has created an “easy to assemble” modular home building kit that uses Styrofoam as a basic material. It creates an igloo-shaped home.

Made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam, the Dome House can be called the habitat for the 21st century thanks to its numerous advantages.

The Dome House is rot-proof, water-proof and termite-proof, thermal insulated and also resistant to earthquakes and typhoons.

What is more interesting is that is possible to construct larger, elongated domes by adding more pieces to be connected into a single structure.

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