Zero living in a box?
Posted by ericww on October 14, 2009
The 2009 Lifecycle Building Challenge awards in the US has unveiled the recipients of its top gongs, which this year are all very ‘modular’ in style. Now, at Home Zero Home we’re not qualified architects (although we hang out with one or two now and again), but we are pretty sure that the term ‘modular’ could mean ‘box’ in this particular instance. We’re not suggesting this is an issue, however. The winning designs look really cool, especially the wood-constructed example pictured here.
The six winning buildings or projects are selected based on how they tackle reducing environmental and energy impacts. The competition is intended to spur innovation and highlight best practices that could be put to use by the building industry in ways to help it reduce the more than 88 million tons of constrution- and demolition-related debris sent to U.S. landfills each year, according to official US estimates.
