Australian Year of the Built Environment showcase of prefabricated housing types
Six prototype houses each designed to be constructed of a different material - concrete, steel, cardboard, timber, glass and clay -
were designed by an architect in collaboration with the appropriate trade association or research institute.
The objective of the exhibition is to promote new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable, prefabricated housing in Australia that are also futuristic and innovative in their design.Link: YBE2004 Houses of the FutureThe idea of an exhibition or prototype house is to break the boundaries of convention and to offer a vision of what the House of the Future might be like.
Article: Infolink.com.au - Houses of the future on show in the present
