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Open House: green dream homes

02 May 2007
The look of the Jellyfish House is so graceful it's easy to forget the building is an environmental workhorse, says Wired. But the concept house harvests rainwater, filters its own waste water and is…

The look of the Jellyfish House is so graceful it's easy to forget the building is an environmental workhorse, says Wired. But the concept house harvests rainwater, filters its own waste water and is built on a wetlands to remediate toxic soil. It's one of ten projects on display in Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living, an open-ended exhibition and research initiative which envisions the house of the future as a place for new spatial experiences, systems of sustainability and sensory enhancements.The look of the Jellyfish House is so graceful it's easy to forget the building is an environmental workhorse, says Wired. But the concept house harvests rainwater, filters its own waste water and is built on a wetlands to remediate toxic soil. It's one of ten projects on display in Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living, an open-ended exhibition and research initiative which envisions the house of the future as a place for new spatial experiences, systems of sustainability and sensory enhancements.