MIT Soft House Nominated for Architizer A+ Award

The Soft House, an innovative work/live row housing project, is now demonstrating novel concepts in energy and architecture at the IBA in Hamburg, Germany. The four housing units include a responsive energy-harvesting textile façade and movable light-emitting interior curtains that enable occupants to reconfigure their domestic space, creating a flexible new model for carbon-sequestering architecture. Each unit has a terrace space, a PV canopy, and a vertical convection atrium layer that circulates air, brings daylight into the ground floor, and creates vertical views of the sky. Credit: Sheila Kennedy, MIT

The SOFT HOUSE, a live/work housing project designed by MIT Professor Sheila Kennedy & Team for the International Building Exhibition Hamburg is a finalist in the Architizer Design Awards–selected from over 1,000 entries in the Multi-Family Residential category! The SOFT HOUSE began with a MITEI Seed Fund and is now competing for the top award and the 2014 Architizer Awards Jury wants to hear from you.

Tired of the Passiv-Haus? The SOFT HOUSE is a new “active house” where the solid wood structural shell is designed to be enduring and the domestic infrastructure of space making curtains, energy, and lighting, is designed as responsive smart furniture–mobile, interactive, and joined by the SOFT HOUSE network. Vote for the Soft House on Architizer! Please follow this voting link below:

http://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=02

To make sure your vote is counted just:
1. Sign in with your facebook/google/linkedIn/twitter account
2. Hover over SOFT Rocker
3. Click “Vote”
4. Click “Confirm”

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MIT Soft House Nominated for Architizer A+ Award

Vote for it! Now through March 21