As technology is growing day by day, it is influencing everything around us. Everyday new techs keeps popping up. People are challenging the old ways of doing things and innovating whole new different ways, like the people at BMW have created the 'GINA'.
Like this, the architecture firm Kierantimberlake has been rethinking of how architecture is designed and constructed that is more linked towards the contemporary material flows, design factors, fabrication technologies, and assembly processes currently used in such industries as automobile, ship, and aircraft manufacturing.
Cellophane House is a five-story, off-site fabricated dwelling made of transparent, recyclable materials commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art for the 2008 exhibition, Home Delivery.
The Cellophane House is incredibly flexible and a temporary structure with recyclable materials. The entire structure is an extruded aluminum frame to which all other built elements such as floors and ceilings, stairs, bathrooms, and mechanical rooms are attached with reversible connections (screws, nuts and bolts unlike conventional methods of welding and gluing), enabling a rapid disassembley and recovery of components for reassembly.
Moreover, this frame allows any of the walls, floors, structure, or envelope to be replaced at any time if there is a need without invasive modifications. Theoretically it can be placed in any type of environment.
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Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET, PETE or polyester) is commonly used for carbonated beverage, water bottles and many food products. PET provides very good alcohol and essential oil barrier properties, generally good chemical resistance (although acetones and ketones will attack PET) and a high degree of impact resistance and tensile strength. The orienting process serves to improve gas and moisture barrier properties and impact strength. This material does not provide resistance to very high temperature applications—max. temp. 200 °F (93 °C). ]
A layer of film on the interior allows daylight to enter and diffuse throughout the living spaces, while providing greater insulation than any glass unit. An air cavity between the inner and outer layers of PET, serves as multipurpose mechanism.
During the summer, air is ventilated through the cavities, exhausting warm air through the top and replacing it with cooler air from below. This is an example of how the Cellophane House utilizes the Stack Effect; air is drawn in from below and is exhausted at the top. During the winter, air is trapped within the air cavity. Solar rays radiate heat onto the exterior wall and as a result heats up the trapped air within the walls, warming the house in this heated envelope.
At night, the house is illuminated with light-emitting diodes (LED). Chosen for its low-voltage and energy efficiency, LED generates very little heat, minimizing the need for cooling; and automatic sensors switch the lights on only when needed to limit wasted energy.
A range of material options allows the house to be customized to the different needs, tastes and budgets of consumers. Someone desiring more privacy and a lower cost might choose a quite different set of materials. Cement board might replace the transparent smart warp layer, making the building solid and dense rather than light and ephemeral. it can adapt to a range of climatic factors, solar orientations, slopes and adjacencies.
This type of house is preferable in places with relatively cold winters and cooler summers and where security is not a primary concern.
But still hats off to the innovation and of course it is the stepping stone towards the next generation of houses.
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