When this single family house was built, it took the international architecture world by storm. Constructed on a modular basis, it was glazed throughout, had no interior dividing walls, and could meet its own energy requirements completely. This is the first book to document Sobek's unique house. In it the author explains the architectural design, describing the supporting structures, the technology used, the temperature control system, and to conclude he explores what it must be like to live in such a futuristic building.
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"With the emission-free, recyclable... zero energy house in Stuttgart the categories high technology and ecological building have at the turn of the century made a giant leap that perhaps can only be compared with the technological explosion caused by Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace." (architektur aktuell").
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Sobek at his best!,
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Werner Sobek at his best! Now he sells us his house as vision of the 21. century. If he would only really live there.
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There exists today a type of architecture whose design and conceptual objectives define it as a style rooted in the 21st century - architecture which claims to formulate attitude appropriate to out own and future eras; architecture that finds its forms not by having recourse to traditional designs and materials, but by basing its designs on integrated processes of planning and organisation, taking into account current and future lifestyles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There exists today a type of architecture whose design and conceptual objectives define it as a style rooted in the 21st century - architecture which claims to formulate attitude appropriate to out own and future eras; architecture that finds its forms not by having recourse to traditional designs and materials, but by basing its designs on integrated processes of planning and organisation, taking into account current and future lifestyles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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