Tree House

By Righty

What will the homes of the future look like?  How will they function?  How will we function along with them?  Should we feel like the “Jetson’s“  No, it’s not like that – not yet.  We’re still dealing with life on Earth. We’ll be figuring out how to deal with it.

The Wall Street Journal has a great story on home possibilities of the near future.  I’d call it real down home living.

What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like?

It could have gardens on its walls or a pond stocked with fish for dinner. It might mimic a tree, turning sunlight into energy and carbon dioxide into oxygen. Or perhaps it will be more like a lizard, changing its color to suit the weather and healing itself when it gets damaged.

Those are just a handful of the possibilities that emerged from an exercise in futurism. The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living.

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