Two Homes and a Robot
This week's case study looks at a wider-than-usual lot and clients who wanted a modern home on a traditional street. The design spreads out where nearby homes build up, but borrows enough from the older houses to still fit in.
On the materials side, a rural Virginia home is built partly from its own site, with retention walls that use stone found on the property and timber sourced within 20 miles. It's the latest in The Rundown, our series on the products and materials behind an exceptional home.
For something further out: we look at the home Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist, designed for humans and robots to share. The robot's creator wants an architect or builder to build it, and says more concepts are coming. It's all less far-off than it sounds; we're hearing of one Bay Area home already being designed with a closet to recharge humanoids, even as the U.S. Copyright Office still works out who owns a design when AI has a hand in it.
—Pauline Hammerbeck
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