Jun 15, 2019
This house is so well insulated it only needs solar power to heat it, and can even hide you from zombies.
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This house is so well insulated it only needs solar power to heat it, and can even hide you from zombies.
It’s about time we start to reinvent the ways we build our home. In fact we need to redefine ‘home’ before we begin. Our homes have now become our Offices, our homes are now producing food, they are producing electricity, storing vast quantities of rain water etc...
The Future holds many challenges but I suspect that the homes we know will become more of an independent unit like a farm stead. That is for homes which have more land area but the dense Urban cities will also undergo several changes and will have a reconfigurable space which will have more value.
There will be a lot of emphasis on Independence integrated with interdependence. By this I mean, what we can do by our own homes will be considered standard and all others will be integrated more efficiently.
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IKEA Unveils Robotic Furniture, The Urban Village of the Future & More
How can we make housing more affordable, livable and sustainable in the face of climate change, rapid urbanization and other pressing issues? IKEA has some ideas. The Swedish retailer just unveiled its upcoming collaborations and projects at its annual event, Democratic Design Days, and they range from a new modular way of building entire cities to robotic furniture for small spaces.
The Urban…
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Glass Houses: The Lure of Transparent Materials in an Era of Waning Privacy
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We seem to have reached a new era of human civilization in which people marvel over the lack of privacy to be found in a completely transparent glass house while also revealing every last intimate detail of our lives to strangers over the internet. We tend to think of loss of privacy in terms of invasion, but just as often we’re inviting the eyes of strangers in. How are our ideas of privacy…
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10 Architects, 10 Homes of the Future: The 2018 China House Vision Exhibition
10 Architects, 10 Homes of the Future: The 2018 China House Vision Exhibition
Visions for the homes of China’s future actively transform, adapt, provide greater comfort when sharing small spaces, grow food and even prepare for extraterrestrial lifestyles. The theme of this year’s HOUSE VISION exhibitionis “NEW GRAVITY,” focusing on finding solutions for practical problems in China’s living environment while combining “human wisdom with modern science and technology to…
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Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing
Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing
The United States currently has a shortage of about 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for households with incomes at or below the poverty level, a statistic that’s clearly linked to the homelessness crisis. Meanwhile, 8 million Americans spend more than half of their monthly income on rent.
To house those most urgently in need as well as the people who make just enough money to…
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