Modern Smart Prefabs Home: Green + Wired Debuts Chicago’s Greenest Home

By matalangit On July 5th, 2009

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The Modern Smart Prefabs Home design by Michelle Kaufmann Designs™ and built by All-American Homes™ also focuses on what the future may bring to consumers. This home design is the exhibit “The Modern Smart Prefabs Home: Green + Wired Debuts Chicago’s Greenest Home“, it is open to the public through January, 2009. The Modern Smart Prefabs Home: Green + Wired Debuts Chicago’s Greenest Home has been designed to bring healthy living to the city. Experience an mkSolaire, “the Greenest Home in Chicago”- now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Michelle Kaufmann Designs™

Modern Smart Prefabs Home: Green + Wired Debuts Chicago's Greenest Home.

This open, spacious, loft-like Modern Smart Prefabs Home has been designed to offer healthy, clean and green city living and is perfect for an urban-infill lot, or anywhere a family might enjoy the luminous, loft-like feeling of this Modern Smart Prefabs Home.

The past two days previewing the home and are excited to share some details.

Through the use of strategically designed roofs and windows, the mkSolaire addresses the challenges of the standard row house by sculpting light and air into the center of the Modern Smart Prefabs Home.

Three-story modular and sustainable “green” home in the Museum’s own backyard.

You’ll view and hear about the latest innovations in reusable resources; smart energy consumption; clean, healthy-living environments and easy ways to go green.

The redesign includes a bold color scheme, new furniture, the addition of a “green” baby nursery.

A space-maximizing hallway office, new cutting-edge technologies, wind power, earth-friendly and city-friendly landscaping ideas—and much more.

It honestly inspires folks accomplished with a thoughtful plan and current technology.

New and unique home technologies are on display, courtesy of WIRED magazine. The technology wasn’t there and the public didn’t understand the concept. Explore the home’s updated landscape, which offers techniques for urban gardening, including vertical gardens and EarthBox planting.

Important to mention some brilliant ideas that incorporated into the home design.

Even on a dark, rainy day, light and air were streaming into the living spaces because of a strategically planned design to reduce dependance on artificial light. Listed below is a rundown of items used.

Window walls which fold close to completely merge indoors with outdoors.

Solar shades that raise and lower with an automation system, a brilliant wood slatted door that slides over one of the window walls to allow air flow and security (inspired by the barns of Michelle Iowa youth).

Vintage pieces of furniture, reupholstered sofas made from t-shirt material.

Interesting hanging lights filled with incandescent bulbs. Indoor/Outdoor spaces with nearly every room accessible to the outside. Gardens use of native plants, permeable pavers and rain gardens.

Despite the media attention showered on sleek new designs in the last five years.

Dual flush toilets, low flow faucets, leds lights and cfl bulbs, thin solar panels designed specifically for a climate like Chicago, and a green roof.

Newest generation of modern prefab has captured only a tiny sliver of the home design.

No VOC paints, certified Ipe wood, organic fabrics, tiles made from recycled chardonnay bottles and fly ash, recycled concrete countertops.

Conventional prefab construction that they experiment with more innovative designs.

The first architects to make a persuasive case that prefab design, which reduces construction waste and damage to building sites, among other benefits, was in a number of ways synonymous with sustainability.

Water reclamation systems to collect and use grey water for the gardens.

The technology wasn’t there and the public didn’t understand the concept. That is why it is fascinating to see the ideas that so many designers like Wright pioneered are now being practically incorporated into 21st-century designs like the mkSolaire. All of the right circumstances are coalescing into an architectural revolution that will change the way we live at home in America.