Author: James Grayson Trulove Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061340200 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Features apartments and lofts that are under 1,000 square feet and highlight contemporary architecture and design innovations. This title showcases a range of styles, from modern to traditional, with an emphasis on open space and materials such as glass, plastic, steel, and stone.
Author: Dale Stubbart Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722285296 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
This book details the design for a smaller living space. You can adjust the plans to meet your desires and needs. If this book says to do something one way and you want to do it another way, investigate how to do it another way and then do it that way. Hopefully this idea will encourage your own ideas. And, hopefully, it will more than halve the carbon footprint of a typical home in the US. 5,000 square feet may sound like a lot of space, until you realize we're talking about land area and that 10,000 sq ft is the typical size of a city residential lot. 10,000 sq ft is a little less than 1/4 acre. So, 5,000 sq ft would be half that much or about 1/10 acre. Since we're reducing the land area by 1/2, we should also reduce the house and the car by 1/2. The Not So Big House reduced houses to about 2000 sq ft. In this project we will go even further, reducing the house to 500 sq ft. Many starter homes, modulars, trailer homes, and two-bedroom apts are 1000 sq ft. Large RV's and Houseboats are about 1000 sq ft or less. 500 sq ft is the size of a small 1 bedroom apt or a large studio apt. We could make the house 1000 sq ft by giving it a basement or a second floor, but we want to reduce the amount of house we have to heat, cool, clean, and maintain. Some of things I've designed to maximize the space in your home and garage have yet to be invented. If they are never invented, there is still plenty of room in both the house and the garage. The inventions just give you that much more space. One of these inventions is the car. The car is a modular car, meaning it comes in pieces or modules which can be easily taken apart and put back together. The main module or cab of the car holds 2 people and a few groceries. Most of the time, the only module you need is the main module. The other two modules are a back seat, and an enclosed truck bed or van module. You can even attach all three modules together and still have a car that is small enough to fit easily in a 1 car garage.
Author: Dale Maharidge Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520948793 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study—begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe—puts a human face on today’s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.
Author: Mario Catelli Publisher: Harpercollins ISBN: 9780060185879 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 173
Book Description
New Small Homes presents a selection of apartments, single-family homes, lofts, bungalows and cabins that are limited in size, but strategically designed to create a spacious environment out of a small area. The projects all occupy less than 1,000 square feet, and reflect the creativity and original designs of contemporary architects who demonstrate uncommon mastery and expertise. The homes were chosen because they provide practical solutions to the problems that accompany a lack of space. Examples include the design of partition walls on wheels that enable the space to be distributed in various ways, the positioning of folding tables, the use of the vertical dimension for lofts, and the creation of shelves and armoires in awkward corners. Such useful and functional tactics are summarized at the end of each chapter and in the descriptive text that accompanies each project. Following an extensive illustrated introduction, the book presents more than 20 homes from all parts of the world. Each project is covered in four to eight pages preceded by a descriptive text specifying the objectives of the clients and designers, as well as the aesthetic aspects.This is followed by full-color photographs, plans and sketches that pictorially describe every corner of the house. The last page of each chapter examines the architectural expression and the brilliant, practical solutions that make the home a unique, imaginative project. The book is an essential guide for design professionals and those who want to learn ingenious tricks for getting the most out of a small space.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia Publisher: ISBN: Category : Legislative hearings Languages : en Pages : 1556
Author: Diana Lind Publisher: Bold Type Books ISBN: 1541742648 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.
Author: James Grayson Trulove
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Author: Providence (R.I.). Joint Standing Committee on Ordinances
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
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