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Family builds a 520 m² house in India with doors and windows taken from demolished properties, assembles the facade like a puzzle, reuses stones and wood, and transforms leftover metal pipes into a wall that channels monsoon rain.
7+ hour, 30+ min ago (1322+ words) Doors and windows that belonged to demolished properties were gathered on the facade of a 520 m² house in India. The pieces feature different sizes, designs, and marks, forming a large mosaic in front of the living room. The residence is located…...
Dissatisfied with expensive constructions poorly adapted to the heat, an Indian architect used clay pots, terracotta pieces, reclaimed wood, stone, and earth to create a 220 m² house with four types of roofing and ceilings that help air circulate.
8+ hour, 25+ min ago (1384+ words) Objects resembling kitchen pots appear embedded in the ceilings of the Wall House, a sustainable house of 220 m² built in Auroville, in southern India. The pieces were not placed just for decoration: they are part of solutions created to form volumes,…...
Indian Student Designs Bamboo Houses with Floating Blocks and Recycled Bottles for Flood-Prone Areas; University of Texas Project Aims for Sustainable Housing in Vulnerable Communities
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1215+ words) The bamboo houses designed by Dakshata Kishor Koli, a second-year master’s student in Sustainable Design at the University of Texas at Austin, were conceived for regions prone to flooding and rising sea levels. The proposal combines bamboo, recycled plastic bottles,…...
Artist Converts Truck into Mobile Home to Embrace Diving Lifestyle, Complete with Bed, Kitchen, and Storage
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (850+ words) Instead of continuing to rent, artist and diver Magali transformed the body of a truck into a mobile home with a bed, kitchen, and space to store her belongings. The decision changed her way of living and brought the house…...
They built an entire village of houses with their own hands made of earth and old tires, in the ecovillage Aardehuis, in the Netherlands, where 44 residents live in Earthships that generate almost all the energy, heat with the sun, and treat sewage in their own garden.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (614+ words) The construction method deviates from the conventional. Most Earthships have inner back walls made of old car tires filled with earth. Villagers dig a road by hand on a 1,200-meter cliff in China after decades of extreme isolation, creating one…...
While traditional ceramics require kilns at a thousand degrees and high energy consumption, a British startup transforms discarded plaster into tiles at 35 degrees and closes a pilot with a historic manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) The tile that looks like ceramic but does not require extreme heat is an innovation by Dekiln, a British startup specializing in sustainable construction solutions. The material is made from discarded gypsum, also known as plasterboard, combined with plant-based binders,…...
Stamp House, the Australian mansion that is cyclone-proof up to category 5, was built over an artificial lake, operates off the grid, and uses concrete, solar panels, and recycled water to withstand Queensland's extreme climate.
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (991+ words) What makes the construction surprising is the combination of luxury, engineering, and climate survival. The house was designed to withstand category 5 cyclones, function as a shelter, operate on solar energy, collect up to 250,000 liters of water, and use its own…...
Four sisters and their mother moved back in together and gained a house where each perforated brick on the facade filters the sun, the wind, and the street's gaze: the Vietnamese project Nhà Bè is architecture that breathes through the walls.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (453+ words) The main structure of the house is made of reinforced concrete, with slabs also in concrete. But the external envelope is what gives identity to the project: perforated ceramic bricks in different shades of orange, arranged in layers that envelop…...
Goodbye to the traditional wardrobe: it's losing space to open steel shelving, which leaves clothes visible, enhances the feeling of a larger room, and is becoming an economical choice in 2025 and 2026.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1206+ words) For a long time, the traditional wardrobe was seen as the automatic choice for organizing clothes, footwear, and accessories. Now, the scenario is beginning to change with more force, driven by interior design projects that value flexibility, visual lightness, and…...
Goodbye to the picture above the headboard: the 2026 European trend focuses on smart walls with slatted panels, offering up to 30% noise reduction, up to 40% visual gain in spaciousness, and solutions that hide wires and integrate indirect lighting.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1065+ words) Bedroom decor in 2026 has begun to treat the headboard wall as a central part of the design, replacing isolated artwork with panels, continuous coverings, and solutions capable of combining aesthetics, acoustic comfort, and better utilization of available space. This change…...