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2. House plan - Wikipedia

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   Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

3. Tiny-house movement - Wikipedia

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   The average size of newly constructed homes in the United States grew from 1,780 sq ft (165 m 2) in 1978 to 2,479 sq ft (230.3 m 2) in 2007, and further still to 2,662 sq ft (247.3 m 2) in 2013. [22] [23] Henry David Thoreau and the publication of his book Walden are often quoted as an early inspiration for the tiny-house movement.

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5. Pearlman Mountain Cabin - Wikipedia

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   Several architects refused to design and erect a weekend home on the property, but recommended John Lautner to the couple who had a reputation as an expert for unusual projects. [2] Lautner provided a first draft of his plans in 1956, and the building started in 1957. Construction was conducted by William Branch, a brother of Agnes Pearlman.

6. Grid plan - Wikipedia

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   A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg. The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks. In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. [1]

7. Shipping container architecture - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, although the two ends of a container are extremely strong, the roof is not. In the case of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) container, the roof is built and tested only to withstand a 300 kg (660 lb) load, applied to an area of 61 cm by 30.5 cm (2 ft by 1 ft) in the weakest part of the roof. [4]

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   In 1978, retired Air Force officer Jesse Marcel revealed that the weather balloon had been a cover story and speculated that the debris was extraterrestrial. This became the basis for long-lasting and increasingly complex and contradictory UFO conspiracy theories , none of which have any factual basis.

9. Zero-energy building - Wikipedia

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   A Zero-Energy Building (ZEB), also known as a Net Zero-Energy (NZE) building, is a building with net zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site [1] [2] or in other definitions by renewable energy sources offsite, using technology such as heat pumps, high efficiency windows ...