10 sqm (≈100 sqft) Off-The-Grid Moveable Dwelling by Good Architects: Prefab Modular Properties and Buildings

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Ecocapsule is an off-the-grid transportable house designed by Good Architects and providing an unmatched dwelling expertise. With its flexibility, worldwide portability and immense off-the-grid life span it’s appropriate for a variety of purposes and functions: from a vacationer lodge or an unbiased analysis station to a humanitarian-action unit or an emergency housing.

Ecocapsule is a low-energy prefab house packed right into a compact and environment friendly type. It merges a off-the-grid capabilities, compact quantity and near most vitality environment friendly form with the luxuries of a scorching meal, working water and a heat mattress.

Regardless that very small in dimension, every unit comfortably homes two adults. The environment friendly spatial structure design permits you to take pleasure in acquainted comfort of common homehold services in off-the-grid circumstances. Sizzling bathe, built-in kitchenette and bathroom are luxuries of a lodge room that are actually accessible for utilizing in wilderness additionally.

Loads of space for storing can match all of your journey, analysis or sport tools. Regardless of its small dimension every Ecocapsule unit is fitted with all fundamental and important options essential for a chronic and comfy keep with no have to re-supply or recharge.

Energy

Ecocapsule off-the-grid transportable house is powered by an array of photo voltaic cells complemented with a built-in wind turbine. Excessive-capacity battery (9744Wh) and twin energy system ensures that unit could have sufficient energy during times of decreased wind or photo voltaic exercise. The floor of an Ecocapsule unit is roofed with high-efficiency photo voltaic cells with 2.6 sqm of space (600W) and a retractable pole holding a wind turbine (750W) is additional connected to the unit. This creates a system with chance to reap an vitality that may assist snug circumstances virtually year-round in lots of off-the-grid areas.

Water

Exterior spherical form is designed with optimization for the gathering of dew and rainwater. Furthermore, water from any sources will be cleaned and utilized by built-in water filters.

Dimensions, weigh and transport

Sizes of Ecocapsule (HxLxW 2.55×4.45×2.25m/4.5m with prolonged pole) enable it to be shipped into a regular transport container. No precautions or particular preparations are essential to move the cabin worldwide. It may be towed, airlifted, shipped and even pulled by a pack animal. Weigh of the off-the-grid transportable house is 1500kg.

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WHAT WE DO

Our challenge vary is large – from interiors, household homes, public and residential buildings to urbanism, city and panorama design.
Lately we’re specializing on inexpensive, experimental, vitality environment friendly, social and collective housing.
We’re providing providers on all ranges of challenge documentation. From preliminary research, planning software challenge, building and realization challenge to cooperation thought building course of. Good Architects are additionally providing session providers in architectural and building fields and technical due diligence.

HOW WE DO IT

Our design course of is influenced by expertise and experience acquired in world acknowledged places of work as BIG, Dominique Perrault or 3XN.
Our proposals are all the time bringing new and contemporary notion on duties in structure. Our work is characterised by rethinking previous methods of creation, integrating data of various professions as panorama design, expertise, artwork, psychology, science, sociology and life itself. We’re becoming a member of magnificence, performance and humanity into one complicated entity. We all the time put lot of Love & Logic into all our tasks. We’re pushing limits as far past expectations as potential. We love to provide shocking concepts, optimistic visions, liveful methods and modern tasks within the structure and associated fields.

AWARDS

RAH Competitors – Folks’s selection award + joint 2nd prize with challenge Adelaide Rocks alias The Hill, Australia 2013
Honorary point out – Architectural biennale Tallinn 2013
1st Worth – Parkhill residential improvement 2012
third Prize – Danubiana Park – class Houseboat 2011