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There is a good photo of this house on the link .  Someone with good 
imagination might be able to get some idea for an extra building (of more 
climate sustainable materials) from the photo.   This house has a "livestock 
butcher" set-up, built right into the floorplan.

 I have always enjoyed the "tiny house" or "small house" concepts in 
Architecture.  I just bought two books from Amazon on timber-framing, becuase 
I need to learn more, but I have a couple of books, somewhere, entitled "Tiny 
Houses" and " Tiny, Tiny, Houses" (by the same author) which I need to locate 
and read again.

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Architecture 

$5,000 Paper House is the World's Swankiest Hobo Pad

By John Herrman, 7:15 AM on Mon Jan 19 2009, 51,594 views 

Swiss company The Wall AG has a perfect solution for third-world shanty 
towns, semi-permanent refugee camps and approximately 7.2% of adult 
Americans: paper houses!

This isn't mere papercraft—the Universal World House is a $5,000, 390 square 
foot modular home, outfitted with plumbing and boarding facilities to support 
up to eight (eight!) residents each. The secret of its construction is its 
"paper" shell; the resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, is 
shaped into honeycomb walls, which provide structural integrity and 
insulation to the houses.

Aside from having a convertible closed/open-air kitchen with table and 
benches, the Universal World House has a hidden killer feature:


It has been designed so that a family can slaughter an animal on the veranda, 
wash it in the shower and hang it, along with fish, on an integrated washing 
line.

Hooray!(?) Apparently a few countries have placed orders for the UWH, 
including Nigeria and Angola, but I could see how domestic aide organizations 
could benefit from something like this too. [BBC via Fark]

http://i.gizmodo.com/5134222/5000-paper-house-is-the-worlds-swankiest-hobo-pad