Home on Earth
The prototypical recipe book provides a loose framework for BLDUS’s unique farm-to-shelter architecture in Home on Earth, offering delectable suggestions for healthy modes of human habitation. Using traditional materials processed with contemporary techniques, BLDUS designs and builds sustainable houses in and around Washington D.C. that pay tribute to their contexts and gain integrity as they age. Home on Earth showcases built houses alongside material studies and models to propose a healthy building cuisine specific to the Mid-Atlantic Region. These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the Mid-Atlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.
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'Humanity’s most cherished architecture brings to mind the relationship between buildings, the four elements, and the cosmos.'
'We don’t follow a precise rubric to value a material’s relative health; we follow our guts, and these materials taste good.'
'These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the MidAtlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.'
BLDUS is an architecture and development office founded by Jack Becker and Andrew Linn in 2013. Founded in the Anacostia neighbourhood of Washington DC, BLDUS creates an architecture of accommodation that pays tribute to its context and gains integrity as it ages. BLDUS seeks opportunities in economies of scale, scope, density, means and materials, often integrating traditional construction methods with new technologies and organic materials ideally suited to their region. Adam Ainslie has been a contributor since 2020. Based in Washington DC, BLDUS creates an architecture of accommodation that pays tribute to its context and gains integrity as it ages. Ty Cole is an award-winning photographer who is driven by a passion for design, technology and a curiosity about how humans connect with each other and their environments, built or natural.