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2. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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   A double envelope house is a passive solar house design which collects solar energy in a solarium and passively allows the warm air to circulate around the house between two sets of walls, a double building envelope. This design is from 1975 by Lee Porter Butler in the United States.

3. Tiny-house movement - Wikipedia

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   Types of tiny houses that may be a part of this movement include shipping container homes, tiny cabins, small houseboats, bus conversions, and others. [13] One of the differences between the tiny house movement and previous small living spaces is that they can actually have a higher cost per area than larger homes. [7]

4. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue

5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of lumber. Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940. Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back ...

6. Portable building - Wikipedia

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   Portable cabins. In Australia, small portable dwellings are often called dongas. [4] In Australia the word "demountable" in particular refers to portable classrooms. [5] In the United Kingdom the words "Portakabin", "Portacabin", "Bunkabin" and "terrapin" are commonly used to describe these buildings. The use of these words as generic ...

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