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Sustainable Home for Australian Desert; Stunning Treehouse Cabin

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Sustainable Alice Springs Home For Surviving The Australian Desert
http://www.homedesignfind.com/architectu...an-desert/

EXCERPT: The clients adore the extreme beauty of the Alice Springs desert and wanted an age-in-place, sustainable home from which to enjoy the desert for the rest of their lives. Australian firm Dunn & Hillam created a home that is self sufficient in energy and water, with solar panels on the roof supplying electricity, and banked in a battery rather than connected to the distant grid....

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Stunning Modern "Treehouse" Cabin on Stilts Hidden In Downtown LA - Tiny House for Us
http://tinyhousefor.us/tiny-house-spotli...wntown-la/

EXCERPT: Hiring a professional can be expensive, but it’s money well spent when it gets results like this. The design team of Christopher Kempel, Rocky Rockefeller and Bridget Zimniski at Rockefeller Partners Architects hit it out of the park with this award-winning 170-square-foot cabin called the Banyon Drive Treehouse, which has been featured in over a dozen architectural magazines. The LA-area studio actually sits on 12-foot stilts rather than the nearby pine tree, and those stilts continue up through the floor to form the structural members of the building....
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At first I was somewhat bewildered by the tiny house trend. Why, I wondered, would anyone want to live in such a small space? Then, having just moved from a two bedroom to a studio, I realized the freedom one feels in downsizing. Less space = less clutter = less stuff to worry about. Why DOES a human need a big box to live in as a opposed to a small one. You're still inside a box. You're still "inside" trying to become comfortable to being confined. Living inside something is something we as roaming primates had to adapt to once we reached colder climates. Now we design our insides to simulate being outside, including lots of windows, wood, and pictures of other places. But when we learn to accept being inside in itself, as a sense of being sheltered and protected, there really is no problem with the amount of space. Enough space to eat, excrete, sleep, and watch TV. What else does one need really? Keep it simple..
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