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Wee House: Your utopian home available now
by The Green A-TeamWondering what house to build when you start that utopian community you and your friends have been planning since the economy imploded?
Why not build a weeHouse? Alchemy Architects are the sustainable brains behind this elegant solution to the house that stands on it’s own both structurally and energetically.
First produced in 2003, the weeHouse with it’s painted rust finish looks something like a wooden shipping container with large windows cut out. Ranging from one box studios to 4 box not-so-wee’s, predesigned standards are arranged in various ways, offering a host of sustainable sidings and interiors that best suit your tastes and budget.
Each weeHouse is designed with lighting and appliance features that are highly energy efficient. Renewable energy sources are available to take you even further from the grid. WeeHomeowners can choose between solar or wind kits or, preferably, a combination of the the two which can provide up to 150 kilowatt hours per week provided there’s at least a light breeze averaging around 12mph.
All told, the price tag for the weeHouse studio module with full solar and wind energy kits stays around $100,000. For more sustainable dwellings check out some of the following links:
Sustainable and recyclable house made from loofas (Inhabitat)
How to make sustainable housing happen (Treehugger)
A sustainable solution to affordible and sustainable housing (World Architecture News)
FabPrefab (Modernist Prefab Dwellings)
Have a look at these existing weeHouses already built and making people happy:
Photos by Ants Colony!