If this house had been built on a slab, the site-prep crew would have trenched around the outside approximately 2 feet deep and then completely leveled the area for the pad. Foundation Slabs, basements and crawl spaces are the three main foundation systems used on houses. In wet and ...
So far, the major space-faring nations in the world have revealed ambitious plans to establish lunar bases. In 2017, China launched a cooperation initiative for an international lunar research station, and its first phase will see a basic facility built by 2035 in the lunar south pole region....
The author details how he and his art students created slab houses using clay and glaze. They started the project by spending one class period going over pottery terms and definitions. The next class spent discussing different types of houses and the textures and features they have. It lists ...
by Mies van der Rohe with its metallic pillars gently touching the ground and causing a very interesting aesthetic effect, nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that its primary function was to protect the house from floods, since, the land on which it was built is on the banks of a river....
A building is built to be occupied by humans. As such, it makes sense that architects, be they Classical, Renaissance, Modern, or contemporary, would use the human body as inspiration or a principle of design (Korydon, 2012). The building envelope is a man's barrier against external atmos...
First, there was his Air House, an almost transparent sliver of glass and wood built on a spectacular castle moat in Hagi. Then there was Sloping North House, a family home perched on a vertiginous rise in Yamaguchi. There’s also the dental clinic, near Hiroshima, which he decked out ...
The new house, built with load-bearing stone walls and a gable roof, occupies a corner position at the intersection of two well-established streets in the historic fabric of the old town. It consists of a semi-buried vaulted ground floor and an upper floor with various ro...
The big homebuilders, the pros in the housing market, have figured out how to deal with this market and make deals. Unlike homeowners sitting on vacant houses waiting for whatever, they have to build and sell houses to keep their revenues flowing and to kee...
The standard package is priced to be built on a concrete slab foundation, which is easy to install and requires little maintenance. It also comes preset at a ceiling height of eight feet, although you can opt to raise it to nine feet for an additional $813 or ten feet for $1,111. Th...
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