Дом из старой автотрассы (Big Dig House)

As a prototype for future Big Dig architecture, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete from Boston's Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials. Although similar to a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements were designed from highway components. Most importantly, the house demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.
SINGLE speed DESIGN LLP

Дом на крыше (Loftcube) Вернера Айслингера

It seems like a spaceship on top of a building. These mobile living units, placed on flat roofs by helicopters or cranes and connected to the building's utilities, offer additional living space in big cities. Utopian loftcube living envisages self-contained rooftop communities, a new way of life with a view and privacy, tranquillity and freedom compared to the condensed living spaces and speeded-up everyday metropolitan existence.
The house, devised by the German designer Werner Aisslinger, is extraordinarily compact: The loft cube is made up of an open-space where living, dining and cooking takes place, it has a separated sleeping area and a bath. True luxury is incorporated when a swimming pool is installed in the roof, complete with landscaped terrace where you feel transported away to another world in the middle of the urban metropolis. You have nothing but views of open skies and a personal world that offers respite from the hectic and stressful world below. Inspired by such projects as the Futuro House, a UFO shaped dwelling designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968, initially for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home. The idea behind the design reflects the optimism of the sixties. At the time people believed technology could solve all problems for the human race. The ideal was of a new era, a space-age, where everybody would have more leisure time to spend on holidays away from home. Like the Loft Cube of today it was so lightweight, it was easily transportable by helicopter.
Площадь 39 кв.м., 1 этаж
Werner Aisslinger - Loftcube

Хижина для любого места (All Terrain Cabin)

We thought people all over the world should have a chance to see what Canadians get up to when they turn their heads to design, technology, and other imaginative persuits. The All Terrain Cabin (ATC) was dreamed up to send Canadian design on a world tour of International Design Forums, Consumer Home and Interior Design Shows, Environmental Conferences, and Special Events, as well as more casual visits to small towns, open spaces, and the downtown cores of major urban centres.
For that purpose, we designed a small home, a cabin, using the standard ISO shipping container as the basis for the structure and outfitting it totally with Canadian Design and Technology*. The result is as smart as it is efficient, suitable for a family of four and a pet to live off the grid in comfort and contemporary style. It travels by train, truck, ship, airplane or helicopter, folded up and indistinguishable from any ordinary shipping container. Once it arrives, it unfolds rapidly to 480sf of self-contained, sophisticated living space with all the comforts of home.
Площадь около 40 кв.м., 1 этаж
BARK: Raising the Profile of Canadian Design

Дом-Контейнер (Case House) Джона Пардея

Дом для отдыха в Котсволдсе, Великобритания (Cotswolds, UK), "Дом-Контейнер" (The Case House), выглядит просто. По форме он похож на большую коробку - когда дом закрыт, лишь единственный фасад на внутреннюю часть участка говорит о том, что это жилое строение - но когда дом полон гостей, множество стен-дверей, опускаемых гидравликой, раскрывают дом навстречу солнцу и окружающим пейзажам.
Это позволяет приподнять завесу тайны большой коробки. Дом, раскрываясь подобно раковине устрицы, демонстрирует изысканное, притягательное, белоснежное внутреннее пространство, контрастирующее с более темными фасадами. Это "разоблачение" возвеличивает смысл дома, предстающего посреди сада большим ларцом или шкатулкой для драгоценностей. Опускающиеся на шарнирах стены-ставни - самый активный элемент в этом архитектурном решении, способном изменять саму природу как здания, так и места.
Площадь около 80 кв.м., 1 этаж
Landmark Houses, Lower Mill Estate. The Case House
John Pardey Architects