FabLab House on Life.com
FabLab House has been named one of the very coolest Solar homes on Life.com, a magazine representing the most amazing collection of professional photography on the web. More information about this can be found at life.com/image/102299344/in-gallery/44991/very-cool-solar-homes and more about the FabLab house can be found at www.fablabhouse.com
FabLab House wins Peoples First Choice Award
FabLab house has won Peoples Choice Awards at the Solar Decathlon Europe Competition in Madrid. A pioneer in a different approach to design and technology, The FabLab house has incorporated different systems of social spaces, where self-sufficient habitats are able to produce energy, food and other goods. It is developed on a network of fabrication laboratories using CNC machines to design and produce houses that can be customizable by the inhabitants, and at the same time adaptable to the environmental conditions. More about the FabLab house can be found at www.fablabhouse.com .
FabLab House in Madrid
Aerial view of the FabLab house in Madrid
FabLab house interior
The fablab house in Madrid: A preview of the future of how design can be manipulated and used according to the technology and know how that has provided us with limitless possibilities. The interior of the house is composed of a social space, a bedroom, kitchen, a small FabLab, a bathroom and an elevated small room for invited guests to sleep. The house’s control system is designed to provide detailed real-time monitoring of its behaviour and its interaction with the environmet, creating historical profiles which can be shared socially. More of the FabLab house can be found at www.fablabhouse.com.
FabLab House in Solar Decathlon Europe Competition
FabLab House team in Madrid
FabLab House in Madrid
Interiors of the FabLab House
Fablab House being presented by journalists
More than 5,000 visitors at the fablab house
Fab workshop with children
Realizing a drawing of a Solar House
After endless nights of hard work the fablab House has been constructed in Madrid. With its theme ‘Form follows energy’, the house is now using the resources of its environment – the sun, water and wind to create a microclimate that will improve the basic conditions of habitability. The fablab house is also now serving as a workshop space where digital fabrication,innovation and creativity is encouraged. This sunday more than 5o children have realized drawings of their ideal solar house. They were supported by the fablab house team to win a fablab house cap with their names digitally imprinted on it.The competition for the next week till the 27th of june, more on the fablab house news can be found at www.fablabhouse.com.
Fab Lab house Construction in Madrid
Fab Lab House is under construction in Madrid, piece by piece everything is getting fixed to its place. More to see through out the end of the construction period and the opening for the Solar Decathlon Europe .
Fab Lab House-Construction In Madrid
The FabSolar house under construction in Madrid
Team Working through out the night to mount the pieces together
FabSolar house in Madrid
Few of the last pieces of panels being mounted from IaaC to the truck
After travelling all the way from Barcelona (IaaC), to Madrid (Construction site), The FabSolar House is now under construction in Madrid. All pieces are there and now being fit together; despite the pouring rain the Solar house team, directed by Daniel Ibañez and Rodrigo Rubio, is working hard to have the house on time for the competition.
Fab-Solar House Presentation in IaaC
Fab Solar House presentation in IaaC
IaaC Director Vicente Guallart Presenting the house to various journalists
Presentations on details of the Fab solar house
-sponsors, researchers, members of the fab solar house team
Before attending the Solar Decathlon competition in Madrid, Fab Solar house has been opened to the public on the 4th of june, 2010 at IaaC. The partners and members of the Fab Solar house – Schnieder Electric, Endesa and Visoren amongst others – ,sponsors of the project, politicians and members of institutions like the Mies Van Der Rohe foundation had all been present to see the house under construction. Presented by Iaac Director Vicente Guallart there have been discussions on why and how the fab solar house has been aspired to be built, its technicalities and its aims for the future. Fabhouse researchers, students of Iaac & Fabacademy and collaborators have all been present during this event also discussing on their future trip to Madrid which will start at the end of this week.
Fab Solar House construction – Nearing to an end
Fab Solar house construction in IaaC premises
Flipping and separating one of the panels
Three more days to go for the Fab Solar house to be transported to Madrid, the house is on the process of being finished, electrical installations have been set up, interior furniture is fabricated and ready to be inside, the exterior ramp is also being fabricated and the exterior skin is being put up on every parts. The final push will be on sunday june 6th 2010 when these pieces are all going to be transported to Madrid, for the solar decathlon competition.
