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Build Your Own Tiny House and Live Free

When you read Tiny House - The Definitive Manual to Tiny Houses, you'll discover everything you need to know about this unique and popular lifestyle. Instead of spending most of your life paying off a traditional house, you can create your own tiny home at a fraction of the cost

When you join the growing tiny home movement, you'll enjoy many benefits:

• Two-thirds of tiny house owners don't pay mortgages
• The majority of people with tiny houses have more savings than average Americans
• Most...

You may have noticed shipping containers scattered all over on an airport or port areas. These durable containers are used to transport different foodstuff, luxury items, cars, spare parts and merchandise from one place to another. These are often discarded or recycled to use in different manners. These are often used to design radar stations, bank vaults, bathrooms and showers, military and fire training stations, shopping malls and mobile stores, concession stands, press boxes, trucks, elevator shafts, recording studio, and homes. There are numerous ways to use a shipping container because...

Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in the future.

This book, first published in 1988, includes a review of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs. Post-Occupancy Evaluation categorizes the approaches to building evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in...

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in DolmabahA e Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey s new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as Anitkabir (Memorial...

Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In many respects, Doha is portrayed as an important emerging global capital in the Gulf region, which has been positioning and re-inventing itself on the map of international architecture and urbanism, with a global image of building clusters of glass office towers, as well as cultural and educational...

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings' embodied engagements with their...

During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as 'uniquely molded', 'woven like a textile fabric' and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to...

Entwurfliche Eingriffe in bestehende Bauten stehen immer vor der Frage nach der Gegenwart der Vergangenheit: Wie soll das Alte im Neuen aufscheinen? Dies ist der Ausgangspunkt von Int - AR, einer jahrlichen Publikation zu aktuellen Fragen von Umbau und Umnutzung in den Entwurfsdisziplinen.

Wasser hat immer als Inspiration, als Material, als Katalysator fur Stadt und Architektur gedient - von Carlo Scarpas poetischem Umgang mit dem Element, uber die stadtebauliche Revitalisierung urbaner Flussufer, bis hin zu technisch innovativen Grundungen von Gebauden bei steigenden...

About to remodel your home? Overwhelmed with the number of design options for your kitchen, bathroom, addition, etc., or not even aware of what your options are? Tired of disagreeing with your spouse/partner over what to include in your project? Want to avoid paying an architect and/or contractor loads of money, only to determine that you can't afford to remodel?

Let licensed architect Stephanie Wascha teach you how to guesstimate your budget, determine your priorities, and save money by properly preparing for your construction project before you call an architect. You will have...

A user-friendly guidebook of low-cost, high impact ideas for the rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned houses that would otherwise be demolished.

This book offers a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the options available for adaptation to flood risk in the built environment. It provides a road map, set methods and key principles for developing community flood resilience. It also provides insight and advice on how to build an accurate understanding of the flood risk context, be it at building, street or community scale. Offering clear, visual / spatial examples of the variety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a range of flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual for ...