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Une villa d'architecte à énergie passive a été construite par un collectif de professionnels «EQUIP'17» à Estillac. Une maison cubique, d'exception pour ses atouts.

 

Le concept est révolutionnaire. La première villa témoin dite «passive» vient d'être inaugurée à Estillac, au lieu-dit «Bordeneuve». Inspirée des villas cubiques de Palm Springs en Californie, cette maison d'architecte offre de sérieux atouts. Créée par le collectif d'industriels et d'entreprises du bâtiment «ÉQUIP'17», cette villa se veut pilote en France. Façades en béton et menuiseries en aluminium respirant et triple vitrage signées Garrigues, sont conçues à l'usine La CIR de Tonneins spécialisée dans le béton.

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Via Pascal Faucompré, Frédéric Liégeois

Connect:Homes, a Los Angeles-based prefab innovator, has just launched a new line of affordable, exportable, and sustainable modular homes, all of which come from its single California-based factory. The company’s patent-pending modular system ships like shipping containers, but are most definitely not shipping container homes.

Affordable because Connect:Homes has a patent-pending technology that allows them to build modules to 90% complete at the factory, surpassing industry standards that are typically closer to 50%. This reduces finish time and reducing construction costs considerably...

Via Lauren Moss, Digital Sustainability

We’ve covered 3D Printing a lot here at ArchDaily, but most of our coverage has been speculative and, frankly, futuristic – could we, one day, print out Gaudi-esque stone structures? Or even print a biologically-inspired, living house?

But today we heard a story about an alternative to 3D Printing‘s capabilities in the here and now - and its implications are pretty exciting.In a small town outside of Copenhagen, Danish architects Eentileen joined forces with London-based digital fabrication and architecture specialists, Facit Homes, to create Villa Asserbo: a 1,250 square foot, sustainable home made from Nordic plywood fabricated via CNC miller and easily “snapped” together.No heavy machinery, no cranes, no large labor force. Just a couple of guys, a few easily printed pieces, and six weeks.

The architects are looking to make the houses open to the public soon. If their easy, sustainable, well-designed model is the immediate future of alternative to 3D Printing (and considering it’s such a “snap,” it very well might be), then we’re all aboard...

Via Lauren Moss, Digital Sustainability