Homes of the Future of the Past
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1953 All Electric House
Exhibit at the Johnson County Museum of History near Kansas City. "A remote-control switch in the master bedroom turned on the coffee maker in the kitchen, and 'moonglow' lights in the hallways came on at dusk." [Added 8/24/01]
A home stage set built in NYC highlighting many of Microsoft's existing or soon-to-be products.
comHOME - A Smart Dwelling of the Future
A concept-sketch for a small apartment. Architecture tries to respond to new technologies such as displays and cameras by helping occupants understand which spaces are observed/not observed. [Added 8/1/00].
A glass house in Chili creates controversy. [Added 6/15/00]
An ABC tour on 5/11/00 of the new Georgia Tech Aware Home (found off this page as "computerized home")
The just-completed house has a few GaTech projects installed. [Added 5/12/00]
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A glass house.
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Gates House (US News and World Report 12/1/97)
Got Billions? Here's what one billionaire constructed. "In each room, touch-sensitive pads control lighting, music, and climate. Visitors will wear small electronic pins, which will let the computers know who and where they are. Lights and other settings will adjust automatically. Floors throughout the house (and the driveway) are heated."
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What was life like a century ago?
Source unknown. Proceed with caution. Our home and lives can change a great deal in 100 years.
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Home of the Future Architectural Design Competition--Museum Victoria
The Home of the Future Competition was an architectural design competition sponsored by Museum Victoria. Entrants were asked to submit designs for a domestic urban living space in the year 2021. The competition was held to encourage a thought-provoking debate about the form that our personal living environments may take in the future.
From Yahoo: Googie refers to a popular style of commercial architecture that thrived across the U.S., but especially in Southern California, in the 50s and early 60s -- Googie was rooted in "car culture," and inspired by Disneyland, the space age, and optimistic, post-atomic industrial design. This affectionate homage describes Googie's essential look: organic, yet abstract; disdaining gravity; and blending disparate structural elements and influences. Visit the gallery of photographs that document coffee shops, bowling alleys, neon signs, and tiki huts -- lingering icons of the whimsical glory that was Googie.
Boston Globe--Articles on Home Technology and Home of the Future
This is an okay site. The house of the future is modeled with Legos. The articles offer another visionary view of what the future will be like.
Home of the Future near Dallas/Forth Worth Texas
The home is a joint project of Centex, BUILDER, Home magazine, and B3 Architects and Planners. Does a relatively detailed job of updating the progress of construction
Home of the Future Features New Home Wiring Solution from Lucent Technologies
Information on dome houses
A house with a lot of home automation
Short blurb from Popular Science about Michael Jantzen's Invisible House--really cool graphic
A Home for all Ages--Iowa State
A universal design developed for the 1990 Farm Progress Show
Built of Gypsum Wallboard in Coppell, Texas
CNN article on Japanese homes for the millenium
Better Homes and Garden's House for 2000
The Do Able Renewable Home--AARP
A guide to making your home fit your needs published by the AARP.
Builder Online's Home of the Future
Thoroughly developed site of a home of the future.
Desert Botanical Garden's Desert House, Phoenix, AZ
They call themselves a Home of The present arguing that "using readily available materials and proven builditechniques, the Desert House partners have clearly demonstrated that an energy and water conserving house, inhabited by a typical family, can be operated comfortably and economically while saving as much as 50% in energy and water."
Futurama (mpeg movie 5.6MB)
General Motors 1960 World's Fair Exhibit demonstrating miniature automated landscape showcasing the highways of the future. [Added 04/11/00]
Monsanto's House of the Future. Existed in Disneyland from 1957-1967.
Amusing pages of 6-7 yr old kids views of the future.
Demonstration House; Dream House of the Future built by Nicholas Thompson of Cole Thompson Associates and information technologist Alan Kell of i&i.
Home Modification Action Project (HMAP)
USC's project to develop a model local home modification coalition in Southern California that can be replicated elsewhere, use new mechanisms to promote information sharing amongst consumers and professionals through the creation of "The Accessible Home Page", a World Wide Web sit, create a compendium of state home modification policies and program, and sustain the efforts of the National Task Force on Home Modifications, including sponsorship of a Third National Conference on Home Modification.
WUSTL--547a Environment and Buildings
A class similar to IBS/4.455 at MIT. Good page of links for climate, sustainability, and energy.
Case Study House No. 21 by Pierre Koenig
Many links to Pierre Koenig and the Case Study Houses.
Examples of Plug and Play Houses
An Australian house, the house the sun built, compromised of a large PV roof.
Canadian kiddies' views for homes of the future
Canadian Heritage Project. Looks at past housing and future housing.
The 'House of the Future' project was initially developed by UCD School of Architecture tutor Eileen Fitzgerald to challenge traditionally static notions of house and family and develop new housing concepts for the 21st century.
Ok. So they aren't exactly homes of the future. Most are, however, examples of better design than you see in the typical home. These pages seem to work best from Netscape for some reason.
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