Prefabrication and sustainability – these two widely accepted words form the basis of this unique concept. The conception is formulated by the College of Architecture, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University.
The Sustainable Cabin is a “living” laboratory located in Cromwell, Texas, which forms a part of an ongoing project that concentrates on providing creative yet sustainable solutions for architecture. For example – performance of solar panels, cost effectiveness of water harvesting, durability of materials and sustainable components – all of these would be critically examined and evaluated.
The colleges constructed a prefabricated dwelling based on the principles and methods of sustainability, along with a laboratory to analyze, assess and appraise various sustainable concepts related to architecture and construction. So in way the prefabricated design and conception truly epitomizes the strong point – Sustainability.
Many historical examples are also taken note of by this novel project. Like Henry David Thoreau’s Cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts and Le Corbusier’s “Cabanon” Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Southern France. Both projects were typically under budget constraints, and yet managed to lucidly coalesce within the defining features of the environment; hence being considered as “gems” of Sustainable Architecture. The glimpse of a facile, unobtrusive future of architecture is precisely embodied by this uncomplicated yet enduring project.
Via: Archdaily
