Join Bruce Mau. Be Part of the World House Project.
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02.24.06
Bruce Mau thinks big. Bursting forth from the restraints of his graphic design background, he founded the Institute Without Boundaries and mounted Massive Change. Phase II : to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human dwelling. The program, in association with Toronto's George Brown College is looking for candidates: "an architect with a penchant for poetry, a filmmaker with a bent for social documentary, a biologist who plays baseball, an ecologist who enjoys cooking and an engineer who plays in a band, an expert in international relations who speaks three languages and is a great photojournalist, an interior designer who designs underwater worlds…" Create a new way of living. Dissolve the line between learning and practice, between work and the world. Pursue the utopian to the pragmatic. Learn more at ::Institute Without Boundaries.
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"Phase II : to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human dwelling."
Significant progress in this area has already been achieved by the Earthship folks. He might want to check with them and see what ideas they've come up with.
See, while the idea seems honorable, the whole basis of sustainability is adaptability. Materials will always vary with locale, so a house design that's sutainable in Brazil is not very likely to be sustainable in Sweden or Saudi Arabia.