The Homestead House, by American designer Michael Jantzen, is a conceptual design for alternative housing exploring the use of a prefabricated commercially available steel in a modular, low cost building system normally used for agricultural purposes.
Designed to function off the grid, the Homestead House can generate its own electricity via photovoltaic cells and a small vertical axis wind turbine. The design also includes the options of rainwater catchment from the roof arches.
Created to be easy to assemble, the steel arches and straight panels are formed from thin recyclable steel sheets, which can easily be bolted together with simple tools. The arches are bolted together to create a strong building structure that is easy to disassemble and recycle.
“The extreme modularity of the Homestead House design allows for a great degree of flexibility in the way in which the modules can be clustered together to accommodate different needs,” explains the architect. “The size and shape of the entire structure can easily be altered over time by adding or subtracting complete modules, and or by adding or subtracting one arch at a time.”
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