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...keep down feral cat and fox numbers, and can also rein in kangaroo populations. And there's little dispute that they're preferable to hybrids, which tend to be bigger, more aggressive and breed twice a year, rather than the dingo's one annual litter. On his 5,700-sq.-km Napperby Station outside Alice Springs, in a bad year cattleman Roy Chisholm can lose 1% of his calves to wild dogs. Hybrids and dogs from the local Aboriginal community are often the problem - much more so than dingoes. "Hybrids aren't tuned into the natural environment like dingoes...
...Wrestling with the challenge of creating a big enough space amid spatial and monetary restrictions, Endoh struck on the idea of using a balloon shape for the building. The result: a surprisingly spacious two-family house with just 335 sq. ft. of floor space...
...deployed by a single untrained person in about 40 minutes. Before being inflated, the bag containing the construction material weighs about 500 lbs. The builder fills the sack with water, then inflates it. The hut hardens and is ready just 12 hours later. Once built, the shelter yields 172 sq. ft. of floor space and is projected to cost about $2,100 and last 10 years. The objective is to facilitate the quick assembly of structures that are much stronger and more durable than tents. "[Concrete Canvas] gives aid agencies and the military an advantage by allowing a hardened building...
Zamore is working on an easy-to-build Shot Trot kit home, aiming for a price tag of $100 per sq. ft.--less than half the cost of a typical modern prefab house. Some affordable-housing advocates see it as an answer to the housing needs created by hurricanes. Zamore is thrilled. It's "high design that's affordable," he says, "not cheap...
...improving on the kit concept. Among the most recent are Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston of SYSTEMarchitects in New York City. Their take is called the Parish House, and a century after Sears, they used computer design and manufacturing. The result: a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,000-sq.-ft. bungalow that costs $184,000 and whose structural system consists of 1,100 pieces of laser-cut plywood. Each piece is different. There are no posts, no beams--and no nails. The plywood is woven together to form the building's structural web and held together by a series...