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Murray Legge - Pool HouseLocated in the city of Westlake Hills, Texas, this pool house employs a unique sustainable design strategy that is topped off with a green roof. Impervious cover and storm water run off regulations within the city are very tight, but architect <a href="http://www.murraylegge.com/rmlpoolhouse.html">Murray Ledge</a> came up with an ingenious and sustainable way to get around the regulations when it came time to build -- a<a href="http://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/"> garden roof</a>! A low-slung building with a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/stadel-museum-updated-with-a-gorgeous-polka-dotted-green-roof-in-frankfurt/">permeable cover</a>, the structure sits amicably on its site with a hill-like form that echoes the surrounding landscape. Rather than being spread out over the site, much of the project's equipment and program is stacked underneath the garden roof, reducing the overall building footprint.1
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