Check out Wall House from Chilean architects FAR frohn&rojas. It's a modern combination of house and tent. And besides being just darn cool looking, the outermost layer is, according to dezeen, "an energy screen typically used in greenhouse construction. . . creating not only a diffused lighting and comfortably climatized zone inside."
Chilean architects are great and innovative! My new post at 2Modern.com is about a summer house in the Chilean Andes, using the deck to make the entire house.
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I wonder how long the tent stands up to weather? Pretty cool idea.
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Try it here, under Texas Sun and Tornadoes and you'll end up baked in your own juices if you oversleep or blown away (literally) during T-season. This is amazingly great design... for Chile. Too bad people who can actually afford it live either in the US or Europe. Try using it in NY where it's impossible to live under a tent, unless you have an abduction, robbery and rape fetish. Smart of the Chileans, make something that can't be replicated anywhere else in the real world. lol
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Djluckyonline, you do know that the world is not just NY eh? I am sure many Europeans would like to do something similar too - and also that as architects, the designers have done their study as to how this stands against wind. You do not get permits to built this otherwise.
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I would build one and I live in Massachusetts. And I agree with Stratos, less than .1% of United States citizens live in NYC.
I wonder if it'd withstand snow? Then again, if it can take the wind it'd probably hold to snow as much as any other roof would.
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