Future House(s):Genealogy: Cellophane House

The Cellophane house comprise of 1800 square-foot of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, living and dining space, a roof terrace, and a carport.

In essence an assemblage materials to form an enclosure.

Five-story, offsite fabricated dwelling.

Ease of construction achieved with contemporary advanced materials of Aluminum frame and polycarbonate floor plates. Connections are bolted.

Thin photovoltaic panels are integrated into the walls make it possible for the Cellophane house to run off the grid. The walls also have an inner layer of Solar heat and UV blocking film allowing only sun-light in. Ventilation is achieved through a cavity in the wall, which keeps it warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

The modular construction also provides flexibility to grow or shrink in size.

In essence a light extruded aluminum frame with “NextGen Smart wrap” interior partitions, reversible connection facilitating taking apart and put –together for other alternate forms etc… standardized, mass customization and “chunking”.

Reinventing the way we build. Construction vs. Assembly. Components, Sub-assemblies and modules into finished product. Independent simultaneous fabrication of componenents. Techonology facilitating precision and eliminating linear sequential process. Rapid generation and assembly.

Phase changing materials and light diffusing patterns prints as needed? in the walls. stairs, made of acrylic, lit from within with LEDs, and fitted together with mortise and tenon joints requiring no fasteners or adhesives

Speculation this house is the antithesis of green design, using elaborate computer programs and Building Information Management technologies to design, expensive aluminum sections to build, and the most sophisticated plastic and silicon high-tech cladding on the planet

“On the other hand, you can take it apart with a wrench, it generates its own power, and the basic structural system can essentially be used forever. It is also a demonstration of pushing the technological building envelope to the very edge; like so many things that came out of the space program that are now part of our everyday life, there are ideas here that in ten years will probably be part of every building.”