The pre-fabricated, flatpack homes of Pritzker laureate Richard Rogers are a centerpiece for his 50-year retrospective, “Richard Rogers: Inside Out”, currently at London's Royal Academy of Arts until Oct. 13. The homes, which are an adaptation of his 2007 Oxley Woods housing development, are described as "stepping away from the traditional mud and mess of the domestic building site" and with a full list of pros: easily adaptable, lightweight, energy-efficient, low-cost, fire- and water-retardant, even earthquake and hurricane-proof, and of course, innovative -- just to name a few.
The pieces of the 3-story technicolor Homeshell arrived at the RA last week. It was fully assembled within 24 hours, making a clear statement in the debate for the wider availability of cost- and energy-efficient, mass-production homes in Britain.
Watch the video below to see a time-lapse of the house's construction.
And click here for another video that gives an exclusive look into Rogers' retrospective at the RA.
Photo courtesy of 7-T-Ltd via artinfo.com.
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Heh-heh. I thought for a minute that we were about to see a bow to the vernacular, in the form of black-and-white half-timbering. But no, hot colors rule the day. Wonder why they took the trouble to paint those stand-off cleats . . .
Three stor(e)y SIPs make sense, as they fit nicely on a large flat-bed. I wonder if the drawings for this house have been published.
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