An Eco-House for the Future by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Diller Scofidio + Renfro have made a building out of a cloud of atomized lake water, designed a museum for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston that literally opens onto the harbor and devoted an entire multimedia exhibition to the American lawn. Their recent projects include remaking Lincoln Center and transforming New York’s High Line.
The Phantom House sits on a two-acre lot overlooking a rapidly growing city in the American Southwest. The project could be described as a sophisticated desert dwelling that produces more energy than it consumes and gives back to the grid.
Drawing on existing technologies and those that may come to be, it transforms redundancy into efficiency. An indoor, climate controlled house hovers over its outdoor double, so that different household tasks can be performed in- or outdoors, depending on the weather.
Pleasure and sustainability converge: the inhabitants and the house form a feedback loop, in which energy produced in everyday activities can be banked and later used to power home systems, and the house can anticipate the inhabitants’ needs as they move from room to room.
May 23, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Green - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
