Our mission: to design an architectural prototype incorporating sustainable, responsive, and humanistic design technologies.
The Living Homes Studio has designed and built a full scale architectural prototype demonstrating the use of new technologies in creating a sustainable living environment. This photovoltaic powered prototype integrates prefabricated components with passive heating, cooling, and air exchange systems to create a model for sustainable housing. Through the use of pre-fabricated components, design for disassembly, and sustainable systems we have created an architecture sensitive to its users and the natural environment.
Solar energy is stored in batteries for use in the irrigation system and lighting.
Convection currents pull cool air in under the green roof, through the structure and out of the clerestory windows.