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|  | This is a winning entry for an international design competition challenging architects to create an innovative design for a small house that used sustainable building practices and materials with a special concern for affordability, longevity, energy savings benefits, and appropriateness for the hot, humid Houston climate. Calling for a single-family house in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward, the winning design had to be adaptable to a variety of sites and have a construction budget under $99,000. |
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|  | How does a business make money? Reducing the process. How do we reduce the environmental waste? Reducing the process required for the materials.
Everything can be recycled.
As the advance in the science and technology, the plastic and Styrofoam can now be processed though bacterial digestion. Hence, it is not hard for us to imagine a world where everything can be recycled. |
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|  | “infinity” illustrates a total building concept of modular construction from the core and shell to the complete interiors package. “infinity” can ultimately be disassembled, in its entirety, into separate components that can either be reduced, reused, reclaimed and/or recycled back into the building itself or other projects as close as across the street or as far away as another state. |
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|  | 1200+ SQ. Ft.- Modular Prefabricated Dwelling. Triangular Shaped (2) bed Rm, One Bath, Great room and carport.
All components such as Structural base frame, Floor deck (including radiant heat tubing and manifold), Dwelling Envelope (including exterior walls), Glazing, Door openings and frames, and all MEP components built into envelope, roof deck (except roof joists supports) interior walls (electric outlets, switches, thermal and ventilation controls built off site and ships to site. |
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|  | The M_House system is intended for the design and fabrication of ecologically friendly homes. It uses an assembly process in which prefabricated panels and ribs are brought together to form prefabricated modules which are then shipped to the site and joined. The M_House is designed using a 3D parametric CAD model that allows for rapid reconfiguration of the basic construction system. Thus, one can test multiple morphological, performative and programmatic strategies efficiently. |
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|  | There are many containers left from shipped products around the world to the US. Seeing the potential of the container as a modular standard. We reused them to create living environment. Containers are easy to be shipped, flexible for different configurations. |
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