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Northern Cheyenne Housing Prototypes

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Northern Cheyenne Housing Prototypes

Project Location: Northern Cheyenne Nation, Montana, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: An Ecological, Affordable Home Prototype

“The Northern Cheyenne Tribe faces a severe shortage of housing with over 800 heads of household currently enrolled on our list waiting for homes. We would like to thank Red Feather for its....

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Hopi Nation Straw Bale Home

Accessibility | Affordable/Cost-effective | Agriculture/Food | Assisted Living Facilities/Senior Centers | Buildings - Detached | Climate - Arctic | Climate - Desert/Arid | Climate - Temperate | Context - Rural | Culturally Sensitive | Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant | Disaster Mitigation - Fire-resistant | Disaster Mitigation - Hurricane-resistant | Economic Development/Livelihoods | Energy - Alternative Energy Sources | Energy - Efficiency | Energy - Renewable | Green Design/ Practices | Historic Preservation | Infill Development | Low Maintenance | Materials - Alternate | Materials - Environmentally Sensitive | Materials - Local/Indigenous | Materials - Reused/Recycled | Materials - Traditional | Non-Profit/ Community-based | Participatory Design | Residential - Single Family | Residential – 2 BR | Self-Help/Volunteer Construction | Solar - Passive | Student Work | compact | Desert community | hopi | Indigenous | natural | straw | Straw Bale | straw-bale | super-insulated | United States

Hopi Nation Straw Bale Home

Project Location: Hotevilla, Arizona (Hopi Nation), United States
Building Type: Residential – 2 BR , Residential - Single Family, Assisted Living Facilities/Senior Centers
Project Descripton: An Ecological, Affordable Home Prototype

“I took the planner, surveyor and engineer from my office to see [the Hopi straw-bale home]. We all said, ‘I want one, too.’ We do have a housing problem here. We need homes, and this is....

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Open-source Straw Bale House

Accessibility | Adaptive Re-use | Affordable/Cost-effective | Agriculture/Food | Buildings - Detached | Climate - Arctic | Climate - Desert/Arid | Climate - Temperate | Context - Rural | Context - Suburban | Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant | Disaster Mitigation - Fire-resistant | Disaster Mitigation - Hurricane-resistant | Economic Development/Livelihoods | Education | Energy - Alternative Energy Sources | Energy - Efficiency | Energy - Renewable | Green Design/ Practices | Holistic Design | Infill Development | Low Maintenance | Materials - Alternate | Materials - Environmentally Sensitive | Materials - Local/Indigenous | Materials - Reused/Recycled | Materials - Traditional | Non-Profit/ Community-based | Residential - Single Family | Self-Help/Volunteer Construction | Solar - Passive | affordable | natural materials | owner-builder | passive solar | simple | straw | Straw Bale | straw-bale

Open-source Straw Bale House

Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: An open-source straw bale housing prototype

“Straw bale construction is at once an American invention and a sustainable answer to housing needs on and off the reservation.”

— Rick West, Director, Smithsonian....

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