This week's MoCo picks.

+ Smith House, a passiv haus in Urbana, Illinois, "a tight, efficient plan + careful siting to max out the passive solar + lots of insulation gives you an almost zero energy house.". Via TreeHugger via Greenline.

+ The ASAP House (About Saving a Planet), a prefab for zero-energy living, is getting built at The NYTimes.

+ Cazu Zegers AIRA Arquitectos' Casa Taller Cubo at noticias arquitectura, a three story open plan cube in the country.

+ The 100K House, a "2 bedroom, 1.5 bath house with roughly 1,000 square feet of livable space. It will be two stories and easily built on any infill, urban lot" in downtown Philedelphia, built green for only $100,000. Via Apartment Therapy.

+ Kamil Mrva Architects' work and home Studio at below the clouds.

+ A Rocio Romero LV Home prefab house tour at Apartment Therapy, "the LV Home comes in on par with or slightly below the cost of constructing a normal stick-built home.".

+ Hyun Hee Hwang's Shadow Clock at Seoul Design Week 2007 on designboom, the hour, minute and second hands are represented by different sized paper animals that stroll through grasslands.

+ Flip Sellin's reflective Polygon Crash Pendant light from IMM Cologne's Passagen 08 at designboom.

+ DESIGNSPOTTER's Flickr set of the IMM Cologne show.

+ Nils Holger Moormann designs a youth hostel, the Moormann berge. Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

+ Noé Ducaufour-Lawrance's tabletop landscape for Longchamp "with objects lined with leather and an intimate space tucked under a sloping leather surface" at Dwell blog.

+ Jean Louis Frechin's WaSnake, a shelf whose "topology can be reconfigured" and a "luminous digital object and a device for relaying discreet information in the home" via SMS. Via pan-dan. Also interesting Frechin's SMS NoMirror, watch the video.

+ Decor Craft's I Am Not A Paper Cup, a reusable double walled porcelain cup with silicone top. Via pan-dan.

+ Falmec's Mirabilia collection of glass enclosed range hoods. Via Trendir.

+ The Good Design Awards Roundup at unBeige. Best read at unBeige, the Good Design website is, well, not-so-good-design. Annual contest? Winners? Where?