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Alfonso Chavez is helping communities around Tucson, Arizona, practice sustainable farming.

The founders of the design studio Rima set down roots in an arrow-shaped Patagonian dwelling where they harvest their own food and electricity.

“We’d go to the salvage yard every weekend and painstakingly go through hundreds of windows, see one that might work, write down the measurements, run out to Jeff’s truck, and put it in the SketchUp model,” says Molly. The chair is by Christophe Pillet for Emu.

A walking path connects the guesthouse with the rest of property.

"Radical sustainability

Embedded in the desert, this Marmol Radziner–designed prefab home for a Las Vegas casino executive features a James Turrell pyramidal Skyspace structure.

Blu Homes's new prefab in Joshua Tree, California.

A custom 1,527-square-foot FabCab with an attached garage built in Cle Elum, Washington.

Offering unobstructed ocean views, the Dvele solar-powered spec house is on the market for $1.4 million.

The completed frame of Desert Wild.

Natalie dreams up interior details while waiting for the permits to get approved.

In this case, the aluminum-clad solid wood frames of the NanaWall glass walls seamlessly blend with the home’s envelope, but there are more than 200 powder-coat options and a wide variety of sustainably-harvested wood options to choose from.

NanaWall folding glass walls are engineered to perform in harsh climates, including the snowy winters of the Methow Valley.