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February 12, 2005
Butterfly House
I was just watching a show called Extreme Homes on HGTV, which features some of the most cutting edge and innovate homes on the planet. This morning they featured the Butterfly House. The entire house is a kinetic sculpture of a butterfly.
Butterfly house is a refurbished family home inspired by the life cycle of the butterfly. An experiment in zoomorphic design, the house traces each change from larval stage, represented by the walkway, to the chrysalis, captured by the staircase and conservatory, and finally the winged canopies - the emerged butterfly.
Although this is more of an kinetic art architectural experiment, I think it demonstrates that our living spaces can become a lot more dynamic, fluid and responsive, resembling living things more and more. Combine this kinetic architecture with other sustainable technologies, and our architecture can become a seamless part of the natural environment.
Here are some more pictures of the house:
have you heard of William Mcdonough?
http://www.mcdonough.com/#
Posted by: Summer at February 12, 2005 11:27 AMI haven't. I looked briefly at his website, but it has an overload of information on the very first page. So is he a sustainable designer/architect of some kind?
Posted by: Paul at February 13, 2005 04:45 PM