Not only is this Zero House by architect Scott Specht completely green, automatic and self-sufficient, but it looks like it could’ve come out of the movie Clockwork Orange.
Glimpse of the fluture
That extra wide roof holds a slew of high-efficiency solar panels that let you say goodbye to electric bills, powering the whole house and storing up enough extra energy in batteries to keep everything running for a week, even if every single day is cloudy. That’s just the beginning.
The house holds its water in a 2700-gallon roof cistern, and the sheer weight of all that liquid pushes water through the plumbing.
But does it make coffee?
Flush the toilets, and it all ends up in a compost container in the basement, which digests organically, relieving you of the need to be attached to any sewage pipes. Goodbye, civilization.
Even so, this house is highly civilized unto itself, with LED lighting built into the walls and ceiling, using very little power and lasting 100,000 hours without changing a single bulb. It’s off-the-grid living, in gorgeous style. Cantilevers, anyone?
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i think that living in this house would rock out LOUD