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Softcover, 188pp

by Richard Crowther, FAIA

Many builders claim affordability. But the houses in this book are truly "affordable" affordable homes. These plans and designs can provide homes for millions of people who could not otherwise possess their own space for living.

This book is based on minimal construction time (weeks instead of months), minimal materials and labor, optimized utilization, and adaptability of space.

The plans in this book range in size from 300 to 1,600 square feet (27.9 to 148.6 square meters). They are designed for use as single-family homes, condominiums, joined multiple housing, guest cottages, vacation homes, medical housing, cabanas, art, music, or literary studies, elderly housing, total solar-integrated communities as well as add-ons to existing homes. This is an idea and informational book for the homeowner, building contractor, project developer, architect, home designer, interior designer, solar contractor, and realtor.

Illustrations include drawings and floorplans.

Year Published - 1984

About the Author
Richard L. Crowther, FAIA, is known nationally and internationally as a solar designer. For more than 40 years he has been designing energy-conserving buildings and homes. His book Sun/Earth has been used in many universities as an introduction to the optimized use of sun, earth, air (wind), and water energies for homes and buildings.

He has lectured at major universities, the Smithsonian Institution, Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL), as well as for the American Institute of Architects.

He has personally constructed a number of very low-cost passive solar homes that exemplify the concepts in this book.

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