The Wall Street Journal asks four leading architects for their vision of a near-term, buildable ‘green house of the future”.
What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like?
It could have gardens on its walls or a pond stocked with fish for dinner. It might mimic a tree, turning sunlight into energy and carbon dioxide into oxygen. Or perhaps it will be more like a lizard, changing its color to suit the weather and healing itself when it gets damaged. Those are just a handful of the possibilities that emerged from an exercise in futurism.
The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living.
You can look forward to more on this topic coming from the Biomimicry Institute in the near future, plus of course an ever growing library biological inspiration at AskNature.org.