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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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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In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing people designed great sculptures portraying a greener version of China than we are used to seeing every day.

In the last few decades China has become a country of consumption which lead to devastating environmental consequences.

So what is China doing about these serious environment issues? Is appearing that Beijing is trying to make the city greener with the Olympic Gardens that have a beautiful design and amazing landscaping.

It has more than one million of rarity flowers and trees of over 1,000 species from 205 countries and regions in the five continents.

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PF1 (Public Farm One) is an urban farm concept built with inexpensive recyclable materials such as cardboard tubes that form a continuous surface to offer space for growing plants in a crowded city.

This could be possible one of the greatest ideas of the future regarding growing plants in a city. Because there is no much space for nature, the suspended farms will turn your city in a green one.

The Queens County Farm Museum and the Horticultural Society of New York gave the plants greenhouse space and assisted with other aspects of the project. The watering system and weekly farmers’ market were created with the help of the Council on the Environment of New York.

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Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, started a project that became one of the most ambitious public gardens created in Europe since World War II.

Only two thirds of the project, has been built so far, at a cost of about $86 million, most of which came from public financing and private donations.

Jacques Wirtz, a Belgian landscape architect is considered by some the modern equivalent of the designer of the gardens at Versailles.

He was hired by the duchess to design some parts of the garden.

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