Mobile Architecture – the Future Housing (techstyle Haus)
Autor: Sharon • February 20, 2019 • 925 Words (4 Pages) • 548 Views
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architecture that consumes less heating and cooling power than an average American Home.
"Anything you can’t fold up and take with you is a blight on the environment." Therefore having minimum impact, sustainable design is needed to alleviate the damage of human activities towards nature. The mobility of the structure creates a minimal effect on the environment in either sub-urban or suburb settings, as structures aren’t imbedded in the ground. The Techstyle Haus was designed to meet the Passive House Standard. A passive house is a low energy building that is designed to meet specific criteria regarding heating, cooling, and total energy. Compared with the average home in the United States, a passive house will consume 60 - 70% less total energy and at least 79.4% less energy for space heating and air conditioning. Therefore the Techstyle Haus is sustainable in both environmental and economic aspect.
Today, new sustainable building technologies and design strategies are being applied to the traditional design of houses. This addition brings about the presence of a new variable in the process of design, the environment. Mario Botta asks the reader in The Ethics of Building, “What is a house today? What role should it fulfill? What problems does the architect have to face beyond the technical and functional requirements of the brief?” No longer are the inhabitants and their programmatic requirements the sole focus of the design. New sustainable design technologies are being integrated into residential designs, making the concern over the environmental impact of the building as much of a necessity as addressing the programmatic and financial requirements of the home for the inhabitants.
Work Cited:
Botta, Mario. Ethik des Bauens = The ethics of building. Burkhauser, 1997.
Knowles, Jonathan, "Techstyle Haus Project Drawings" (2014). Prototype. 3.
Kronenburg, Robert. Portable architecture: design and technology. Birkhäuser, 2008.
Siegal, Jennifer, et al. Mobile the art of portable architecture. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
“Techstyle Haus: An 800 Square Foot Fabric House That Uses 90% Less Energy.” ArchDaily, 22 July 2014, www.archdaily.com/529009/techstyle-haus-an-800-square-foot-fabric-house-that-uses-90-less-energy.
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