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FLORENCE - A modular home-building business is reaching soaring heights at the Fremont County Airport Industrial Park thanks to the inexpensive cost of building here. Five Oaks Homes are like huge puzzles that are built and placed together, piece by piece, then lifted by a crane onto semitrailer trucks, before being moved and reassembled on each owner's property. Once reassembled, the seams between each piece are covered with drywall, textured and flawlessly feathered to the point that no one can tell the homes were once in pieces. "If you live in a resort or a remote location where it is real expensive to build a home, it makes sense," said Jacob Anderson, 28, who along with his father, Dennis Anderson, own Five Oaks Homes. .
WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is poised to announce the winning proposals from Mississippi, Louisiana and other storm-hit states that want to move hurricane victims from travel trailers into cottages and other, more permanent housing. FEMA spokesman Michael Widomski said members of a special panel, whose names are kept confidential, have reviewed proposals from Katrina-affected states competing for a $400 million pilot program approved by Congress in March. The program is aimed at finding better, cheaper ways to house disaster victims. .
The Government's pledge to carbon neutralise every new British home by 2016 may sound ambitious now, but will appear pretty basic to the homeowners of the future, for whom zero carbon living will be a given. By 2080, the avant-garde may be living in houses on stilts (far right) with removable walls, kept cool by dirty bathwater, according to a new study by Arup Associates and Zurich Insurance. In a separate report announced this week, the first steps on the path to sustainable housing were outlined by Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. By 2050, according to Ms Kelly, a third of the total housing stock will be less than 44 years old. And everything post-2016 will, of course, be zero carbon, which means producing enough clean energy to cover any power taken from traditional sources.
The latest in our occasional but continuing series of interviews with LA's architects, planners, politicians and thinkers who shape this city. Someone must have misinformed Ray Kappe, architect, academic and founder of SCI-Arc, about the importance of Curbed LA because he actually answered our emails and thoughtfully responded to our interview questions. Below, find his thoughts on sustainable architecture, the future of SCI-Arc, and why he rejects the "living legend" label. [Image provided by Ray Kappe] So, let's start with the big question: what's it like to be a "living legend"? I have been fortunate and have enjoyed successfully practicing architecture for fifty-three years, with recognition, publication and design awards locally, nationally, and internationally; as well as having been involved in education for forty-four years, having been Founding Chairman of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona in 1968 and Founding Director of SCI-ARC in 1972.
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