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Rural Studio
Hale County, Estados Unidos
A programme at Auburn University founded by Samuel Mockbee in Hale County, Alabama (United States), which trains students by designing and building for low-resource rural communities. It is known for its 20K House initiative, an affordable and efficient home, and for its intensive use of reused and donated materials — from cardboard bales to tyres or timber offcuts. Its work champions reuse, economy of means and a dignified architecture built with discarded materials.
- Category
- Architecture
- Region
- Hale County, Estados Unidos
- Official website
- ruralstudio.org
Why we chose it
Because it has spent decades building dignified housing with reused and discarded materials, placing reuse at the heart of social architecture.
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- Where is Rural Studio located?
- Rural Studio is based in Hale County, Estados Unidos.
- Why is Rural Studio in the Descarboniza directory?
- Because it has spent decades building dignified housing with reused and discarded materials, placing reuse at the heart of social architecture.
