Thiscabinin the Alpokalja forest near Kőszeg,Hungary, was entirely built on stilts as an isolated getaway that would harmoniously integrate with the surrounding trees.More Plywood furniture turns 1990s van into mobile home for Ecuadorian couple ...
Very few people choose to live in treehouses, but treehouse residences do exist. These are houses built in trees; some are quite large. Generally, they aren’t nailed into the trees where they’re located; theirstilts and structureare built around the tree to elevate the home. Treehouses o...
Located on the Surf Coast in Wye River, Victoria, House 28 is a 50-sqm vacation home made from three 20ft shipping containers elevated from the ground on metal stilts. Two of them are joined to form the living space with a toilet and laundry while the third one houses two bedrooms, alo...
This small wooden home, dubbed "House 205," sits on concrete stilts on the side of a rocky cliff surrounded by forest in the village of Vacarisses in Barcelona. It has approximately 433-square-feet of space, built-in, ceiling-to-floor bookcases, large windows that let in lots of natural...
This meticulously maintained 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home, perched on stilts, offers spectacular ocean views and is spread across two levels of living space. With a solid rental history, this home is not only an incredible vacation getaway but also a fantastic investment property. Step inside ...
” So they don’t want to impact the vegetation. We will actually put a house on stilts. So let’s just say you had a house that had 200 linear feet of wall, basically a 200 linear foot of crawl space or stem wall or something like that. If you could put it on piers and ...
the latter responding well to pruning. In small gardens try bull bay, snow gum and the strawberry tree. Pleached trees, or ‘hedges on stilts’, are particularly useful and can be planted relatively close to garden boundaries. Beech, lime, hornbeam and evergreen holm oak are the most common...
We saw dreams turned into reality when we experienced hurricane Irma in Islamorada, Florida. Most if not all the houses were flattened while others hanged on their stilts. Our durable PVC trim shocked many by standing firm in the midst of a huge storm. Being a beachfront house, it survived...
Described by Seattle–based Olson Kundig Architects as “a steel box on stilts,” this three-story cabin in upstate Washington is fitted with four 10′ x 18′ steel shutters that are rolled over the glass windows, so it can be sealed off from the elements when not in use. In fact, the...
Sat on stilts anchored deep into the bedrock, his 3,200 square-foot house is designed to withstand storm surges and category 5 hurricanes. In the five years since Tener moved into his prefabricated home, it has survived a succession of major storms, including Idalia, Debby andHelene. ...