Land+Living: C2C home

Architecture, Green — August 25, 2005 Posted by James

Winning entry in the "Cradle to Cradle" International Design Competition

We've talked about Cradle-to-Cradle quite a bit here at L+L, but have never featured the winning professional entry in the C2C Home Competition. Designed by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum with Brendan Connolly, Rich Franko, Kristine Kenney, Julie Petersen and Ron van der Veen, the concpet embraces environmental responsibility, social responsibility and community interdependence as a complete manifestation of the guiding principles and design issues laid out in the competition brief.

The design is thoroughly modern in appearance and function while embracing the neighborhood and natural context of Roanoke, Virginia. The large "front lawn" of native vegetation wraps up to become a vegetated roof system which collects and filters storm water for use in the house. The horizontal plan is pierced by the vertical "core" which acts as a stack ventilation tower as well as the energy collection armature. The core is clad with a spinach-protein based photosynthetic plasma cell skin that is able to generate enough power to share with the neighborhood.

Link: Cradle To Cradle Home
Via: Future Feeder
More: Archidose
Reference: C2C Home Competition Winners (L+L)
Reference: Designing the Future (L+L)

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Michael Murphy — December 7, 2005
Good grief

This is why all communities need style guidelines in their building codes. Embracing the neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia? Ha! It's hard to believe in 2005 that so many professionals still miss or ignore the concept of placement. If I lived in the 20s craftsman next door, I'd immediately plant a row of evergreens along the property line to hide that horrid ventilation tower. In the same way I wouldn't put the craftsman amongst a row of Vistorians. Where does this belong? Not here.