How would it feel like to sleep in a Web House? What is a Web House anyway? Designed by London firm m3architects, the Web House indeeds explores the changing nature of the house within the fabric of London. A description on the Royal Institute of British Architects website:
The design tackles the notion that the optimum ‘site’ for a building is a flat piece of unencumbered land. With the scarcity of available building land in London, large blank gable ends, exposed service cores or plant rooms in the City can represent ‘brownfield’ sites. Getting 24-hour use out of a site is our objective. After the office workers go home, the residents of the Web House come home.
The Web House can be constructed anywhere. Hung from bridges, strung between buildings, straddling roads or railway lines. On this occasion it is hung from the side of an office building in Old Street.
The inflatable skin is brought to site on a 3m x 3m x 3m pallet with the structural cabling. The cabling is hung from hooks fixed back to the structure through the joints in the cladding. The skin is dropped into the net and inflated. The structural core is dropped in through the top of the skin and acts as the structure to the floors. The structural core also houses the utilities and supports the kitchen units and wc functions.
Access and services are shared through the existing office core and an additional wall climber lift is provided.
See also analysis by consumer trend research firm Iconoculture.
Read:
Web House Project Page
Life on the Edge [Iconoculture]