FabLab House is completed & looks sweet

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2010/06/28 @ 5:38 am
Category Energy

Back in January we covered the Fab Lab House that was to be built as part of Europe’s Solar Decathalon. It is, put simply, a sustainable house fabbed by CNC machines, with 25 teams from 25 countries contributing components.

Well, it’s been built, and it looks really cool. It has a kitchen, bathroom, living area, bedroom, guest bedroom and the soon-to-be-obligatory mini fab lab! Soon we’ll all be living in bloblike futuristic green CNCed houses with mini factories inside.

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4 Responses to FabLab House is completed & looks sweet

Ken on June 28th, 2010 at 1:34 pm said:

So this house is supposed to be “sustainable” yet it was created on CNCs — a pretty inefficient way to manufacture a house frame — and its parts had to be shipped from 25 countries instead of using local resources? Hrm.

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SKR on June 28th, 2010 at 2:13 pm said:

I am with you on that one. People always want to make homebuilding more efficient by making it modular. What they don’t realize is that homebuilding is aleady very modular with 8′ 2×4′s and 4′x8′ sheetgoods.

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craig on June 28th, 2010 at 8:48 pm said:

I like it. The top is unique, but the bottom leaves something to be desired… like the bottom was made from ‘found’ materials and looks junk-y.
Interior could be more finished for smooth looks. A lumberjack talking to Dorothy… Is this a Rozorem commercial? Where’s Abe Lincoln? J/K

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https://me.yahoo.com/a/4eOqK1lzvtBSgYdgNNaD.mWxitkOOA--#cb5d5 on June 30th, 2010 at 6:03 am said:

Doesn’t look that nice from the outside, a bit like Robert Bruno’s steel house but made of wood. I like the interior shot though.

Thomas

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