I just came across to a really interesting article about an special house. This is a very flexible house that change its form when it is need it, having more shade and protection in winter, or it can be open to the light and visuals in summer. How could this house prepare to do that?
The whole concept of this house is to be able to be open when it need it, and close when it is required. This flexibility was created by a sophisticated but simple sliding mechanism of the roof’s house. In other words, the house has the ability to slides open.
The owner of this house, Ross Russell of Suffolk, England, decided to meet with the architects and plan for this special quality. The architect was De Rijke Marsh Morgan.
When it is slid closed you likely wouldn’t notice anything unusual about Russell’s house. With its timber-clad exterior and 45-degree angle roof it resembles so many barn-like structures in the English country side.
When the house slides open, however, it is an unusual sight to behold. Four electric motors silently slide the 20 ton outer house shell back to reveal the inner glass and steel structure. The motors that power this sliding run on car batteries automatically recharged through solar power.
Currently the house shell slides back 28 meters (92 feet), a trip that takes about 6 minutes. In the “back” position the shell shades a patio. It was planned to allowed for the possibly of extending the track further to allow the roof shell to cover a garden or swimming pool.
When Russell sat down with his architects to first conceive of his house’s design they started with the mantra “We are prepared to be radical.” That radical approach is the one that we like and appreciate in EZarchitecture.
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