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Eco-Fabulous: Tiny Stilted Cabins Boast Minimal Footprints

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 09:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Green Homes & in the Architecture category ]

In Mexico’s beautiful wine country, twenty unusual boxes sit on steel stilts overlooking a serene 40-acre winery. Designed by Tijuana architectural studio Jorge Gracia, the property is known as Endémico Resguardo Silvestre.

These steel and glass boxes are guest accommodations called EcoLofts. Their design is meant to make as little impact on the surrounding landscape as possible while providing a singularly spectacular vacation experience.

Each pod boasts a diminutive 200 square feet of interior space, keeping with the property’s purpose of making an almost unnoticeable mark on the surroundings.

While the exteriors of the EcoLofts are austere and low-key, the interiors are truly luxurious. The ultra-modern and comfortable interiors are a purposeful contrast to the pods’ small sizes, providing a camping experience that is uniquely well-appointed.

The EcoLofts all feature small terraces complete with outdoor clay fireplaces, allowing visitors to sit outside and enjoy the landscape while taking advantage of a cozy fire.

The steel stilts, perhaps the most noticeable feature of the small individual cabins, keep the structures away from contact with the soil. If the pods were to disappear from the valley tomorrow, there would be almost no telltale signs that they had ever been there at all.

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Mobile Headboards Split Beds into Soft Sofas & Solo Spaces

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Couches category ]

This may be the first truly novel idea for an adaptable bed-and-couch combination seen in quite some time.

A focus shift is the key: instead of forcing the main mattress area to fold, twist or otherwise contort itself into a new configuration, the flexible modular headboard makes all the changes you need.

The result isn’t exactly a typical sofa, but the movable leather elements do let you use the space in different-but-similar ways, for lounging together, reading apart, or anything in between. Design by Hugo de Ruiter for de Sede.