Houses on Stilts – Architecture trends of the last decade by Michael Cannell: "

The clock is ticking down on the latest design trends of the few himself. Grinding just before the calendar rolls is unlikely that this trend, a fad for the houses on stilts. “Rigid Why? Whatever their actual environmental benefit could be stilted expression of a culture wide desire to walk lightly on earth. These units refer to mobility without basements or foundations, could be gone tomorrow. I am also a return to justice and simple tropical cabins in the early days of pre-finished.

The trend may have been motivated in part by auctioning high-profile two years ago at La Maison Tropicale, a prefabricated building on stilts, designed in 1940 by Jean Prouvé in the colonial French West Africa. One of three prototypes, produced in 1951, was auctioned for 4.9 million U.S. dollars to hotelier Andre Balazs, who owns the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles and the new Standard Hotel in New York.

Robert Gaukroger Kita Design of La Maison Tropicale may have had in mind when he created this series of pod-shaped classrooms for the preparatory school in Chestnut England’s Northwest and milk cartons, plastic recycled. Gaukroger said that the design follows the conscience-free, With the increase of the classroom from the ground, he avoided using cement and not hinder the roots of trees. Its elevated position, it is naturally cool in summer.

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