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Freight Farms Allow Anyone to Grow Food Anywhere in Recycled Shipping Containers
The Boston-based founders of Freight Farms have found an urban farming solution that can work anywhere and for just about anyone. These amazing recycled shipping containers are outfitted with climate and
Ironbuds: Modular and Repairable Earbuds That Dare to Be Broken
If you’re sick of constantly replacing your iPod headphones with even cheaper ones that will probably break before you even pull them out of the box, there’s now a brand new product that just
Abstraction LED Lamps by Perhacs Studio Feature Intricate Interchangeable Leaves
“Abstraction” is a series of modular pendant lamps laser cut from recycled and recyclable materials and designed by Brandon Perhacs of Lichen and Perhacs Studio. In a clever and playful move, the
Crossbox: Beautiful Modular Container Home in France
CGARCHITECTES designed and built this stunning “Crossbox” house composed of four prefabricated containers in Brittany, France. The modern residence is clad in a low-maintenance material for a
Adaptable Live Work Home Wrapped With a Beautiful Perforated Facade
The Live Work Home is integrating the concept of social, economic, and environmental sustainability back to Syacuse, New York by building green. Designed by Cook + Fox, the concept for the home was to
ECObitat: A Lush Modular Prefab With Living Green Walls
Felipe Campolina‘s ECObitat is a modular housing system designed specifically to provide emergency or disaster relief housing. Easily transported and made of off-the-shelf materials, the one-bedroom
LIFEWALL: Modular Vertical Garden Panels Clean the Air
Creating vertical gardens just got a whole lot easier thanks to these modular garden tiles by Spanish firm Ceracasa. Their Lifewall product, which we just saw over at Jetson Green, is a modular tile that
ReNu Modular iPhone Charger Makes Solar Power Sleek
The problem with most built-in solar gadget chargers is that it just doesn’t make sense to stick your pricey phone in the sun for the whole day while you wait for it to charge. But the Regen ReNu
Shelter No 2: An Affordable Prefab Pod
Pod living is becoming a new trend in prefab design — small houses carefully designed to contain everything you need to sustain yourself in a small space. Broisson Architects of Naucalpan, Mexico
SNUGGLES: Stay in a Modular Hamster Tunnel Hotel
This modular, mobile Snuggles hotel allows you to shack up in pods for an artsy camping experience not dissimilar to staying in oversized hamster cage tunnels. The project crosses the boundaries of
‘Solar Ivy’ Photovoltaic Leaves Climb to New Heights
Solar Ivy (or SMIT Grow) is a spectacular system of thin, fluttering solar panels that generate energy by sparkling in the sunlight. The wind and solar power generating photovoltaic leaves can be easily
Modular Architectural Wind Microturbines Take Off
From costly installations to strict city ordinances, there’s a number of factors that have limited the growth of wind power in urban environments. Now, Aerovironment is ushering in an era of urban
PREFAB FRIDAY: Home Factory in London
Throughout Europe, the idea of a single, self-build pre-fab house is impractical because of the cost and scarcity of land. To be truly affordable, pre-fab homes need to be designed as apartments that can
PREFAB FRIDAY: Rotating Colani Rotor House
What the Lazy-Susan has done for efficient dining, the Hanse Rotor House has done for compact living. This spatially smart dwelling is made up of a large open living room surrounding a central core
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