HOUSE IN HEAT, Chile (2007-)
While we find ourselves amidst an accelerating arms race in the material and technological battle for energy efficiency, little thought seems to be put into the question of how temperature shapes our ways of inhabiting space. House in Heat uses temperature to acually organize space. Heat pockets located within the thickene A-frame roof contain all heating sources of the house and register their daily cycle through subtle color changes on the heat-sensitive facade. The remaining open space can be fully exposed to the outside and spills its floor surface into the garden. Through the use of PCM and heating/cooling pipes this floor surface is locally tempered to acommodate for different actiities to take place along its carved out edges during varying times of day and year.

FAR frohn&rojas
project team: Marc Frohn, Mario Rojas Toledo, Natalia Becerra, Amy Thoner, Carlos Graf v. Ysenburg Philippseich