After more than a decade of design work and prototyping, a team of architecture students at Auburn University in Atlanta have launched the first real-world pilot of their 20K Home—a house designed to be highly functional, attractive, and cost less than $20,000. The project is applying good design principles to the problem of affordable housing, demonstrating that it is feasible to create radically less expensive houses by approaching the problem from a fresh angle.
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