Patrick Nadeau, the celebrated designer of the Rainforest – a series of hanging domes enclosed in living plants — asks you to have a look at the La Maison-vague, proposed for Reims, France, as part of the Effort Rémois housing project. The wooden home has a grassy exterior that lends it a superlative thermal insulation. When developed next year, several of these units will combine to offer sustainable housing to many.
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The "garden house"’ is an earth- and plant-protected (a mix of grasses, leafy succulents, thymes, lavenders and other small aromatic and perennial plants), cocoon-like structure that envelopes a wooden interior. Combined with a wooden interior, the mansion also features a water recuperation system for use only in extreme necessity.
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