MY DREAM HOUSE: Edgeland House Returns to the Earth: Interior Design Ideas

Friday, March 1, 2013

Edgeland House Returns to the Earth: Interior Design Ideas

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:58 AM PST

Pit-houses, partially buried into the landscape, rely on the surrounding earth to regulate temperature and bear the brunt of extreme weather conditions. Despite extensive discovery in the far North and Southwest, pit-housing is not endemic to North America, having been identified in the far South, Europe and Japan.

Edgeland marries remarkably complimentary ancient and modern attitudes through the introduction of initiatives such as turf insulation in its seasonally floral roof. At the construction's heart, beats a hydro/ mechanical epicenter in the form of a fully integrated HVAC system, which aids the natural heating, ventilation and air-conditioning of the design itself.

Edgeland stands in two independent living and sleeping quarters, necessitating direct contact with the outside world when passing between them, as opposed to the constant indirect contact facilitated by swathes of paneled glass.

Emotional and evocative, the Edgeland House project sought to heal the once industrial landscape on which it was built and symbolize a meeting of cultural, architectural and environmental philosophy.