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roof of their house. One day I want to have a home that makes me feel well and where I can be safe and happy. The purpose of this essay is to discuss and fine structural decisions I made about designing my dream house. The house of my dream has to be huge, spacious, which would reflect my personality toward innovations and new modern technological advances. . I would like my house count as much as possible with green materials that serve to protect the environment I want my house to be located in

larger for the nobles), there were several variations on the theme. Some houses would have flat-pole roofs, others peaked roofs. Though it was common for houses to be built right on the ground, some were built on platform. Materials included in common house construction included straw, wood, stone, sand, lime, and clay. Straw would often be used for the construction of roofs. Adobe bricks, very common in the construction of houses in the Aztec empire, would be made from water, sand, clay, and a material

The Great House, the largest prehistoric native American structure in North America, is a four-story building constructed by ancient Sonoran Desert people, the Hohokam. The Hohokam were native American tribes that vanished in the 1400’s leaving behind archaeological evidence of a sophisticated culture, revealing advanced canal systems, and the “Casa Grande,” a big house in the Sonoran Desert valley. Missionary, explorer and mapmaker Eusibio Francisco Kino, was the first European to discover the site

The netflix original House of Cards, depicts a congressman by the name of Francis Underwood. Throughout the show, Frank is doing everything in his power to rise to power. He is a corrupt congressman and goes as far as murder to get what he wants. I will go through how Frank rose to power and I will show each step in a model of a house of cards. In order to build a house of cards you need: a deck of cards, glue, and a surface that you can adhere the cards to. In my case I will use a piece of cardboard

of the house is fairly plain. The main entrance (pictured top right) opens off the west side of the Vico Dei Vettii just north of its junction with the Vicolo di Mercurio. Save for this entrance and a side door near the south east corner the exterior walls were unbroken except for small, square windows some of which were in low second storey rooms (an artist's reconstruction of what the house may have looked like is pictured right). Like several other notable houses in Pompeii, the house was a casualty

and tiny houses. Reality TV shows including Tiny House Hunting, Tiny House Building, Tiny House Nation, and Tiny House, Big Living, have brought national attention to the movement. A typical tiny house falls between 100 and 400 square feet. The tiny house movement is one possible solution for individual financial and environmental concerns. Most tiny homeowners also cite a simpler lifestyle as a main factor for choosing to “live tiny.” One of the greatest benefits of living in a tiny house is the

on their street decked out their houses with decorations, but Charlie’s house was always by far the best. It had graves all along the front lawn with zombies popping half out as if they were coming back from the dead. The house was covered in spider webs on all sides, plus it had spiders dangling from the roof. Some of the windows were boarded up and the others had pieces of broken glass still hanging as if someone had just been thrown out of it. On top of the house, they had inflatables such as a

playing with dollhouses as a child, or how about building homes out of Lego’s or Lincoln Logs? The concept of home is something we experience from a very young age, after all, as the new long-term exhibit House & Home at the National Building Museum points out, “We all live somewhere.” The House & Home exhibit explores a subject so wide and so fundamental to the American way of life that it resonates with visitors of all ages and backgrounds. A visit to any of the Washington, D.C. based National

the Rufus Stillman House. The House is located in Litchfield, Connecticut and was built in 1950 by the architect Marcel Breuer. Marcel Breuer became acquainted with this couple, Rufus and Leslie Stillmen, in 1949. They became acquainted when Breuer’s work of his demonstration house that was on display in a courtyard at the Museum of Modern Art, which is located in New York. The couple hired Marcel Breuer to design a modern house for their property in Litchfield. The Stillman House was the resulting

know, is just how bad that home is to not only their health, but to the environment and their wallets as well. That is why, over these past few years, there has been a significant shift to what is known as the Tiny House Movement. However, before we embark on the tale that is the Tiny House Movement, we first must understand the traditional home. As of 2015, the average home in America was about 2,600 square feet, and would cost generally anywhere between one-third to a half of any given pay. At those