No Knavish Design

(1): Bedroom        (4): Showers

(2): Kitchen           (5): Toilet 

(3): Tea house      (6): Hot tub

 

What is home to you? People normally think of their childhood homes or a place they spent most of their time either growing up or a newfound home they made their own. A building, a city, a state, a county.

Swiss Family Home has no location, no set organization, no limit to the size of the family. The outdoor environment makes up the hallways and each building is small enough to travel via trailer. Each room is its own building allowing addition whenever and wherever you want. The kitchen, tea house, and hot tubs are shared encouraging a closer community. Rooms are heated with a fireplace and have a skylight for stargazing. The kitchen and showers run off solar panels. Water is collected on most roofs through gutters on each side that funnel the water to a cistern on one side.

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The structure is concrete from 80% recycled plastic; locally sourced wood frame; water bottles or cans in place of insulation to give the walls more structure and allow dispersed light (kitchen-waterbottles) or to block out light (bedroom-cans); polyester made from recycled water bottles (rPET). Each building has three points of contact for minimal impact. 

 

Culture

Japan:

Ofuro (soaking tub), genkan (welcome pit just inside the front door), and translucent walls

 

Turkey:

Tea garden

 

Russia:

Svetlisa (also tea garden)