Cellophane House

About this book

CELLOPHANE HOUSE chronicles the design and execution of a five-story off-site fabricated home assembled on-site in just sixteen days as part of The Museum of Modern Art exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Through a series of questions the book explores several of KieranTimberlakes ongoing research agendas including speed of on-site assembly design for disassembly a holistic approach to the life cycle of materials and the development of a lightweight high-performance energy gathering building envelope. Cellophane House takes a holistic approach to factory fabrication reinventing the way a building is assembled its materials and spatial experience. An innovative aluminum frame enables mass-customization of the home in multiple configurations rapid assembly and adaptability to different sites and climates. Disassembly rather than demolition is inherent as an end-of-life option to successfully preserve the embodied energy in the recyclable house materials. More than a building experiment it suggests a new way forward in an approach to mass housing. Cellophane House has received awards from several groups: the AIA Housing Committee the AIA Technology Committee Boston Society of Architects the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design AIA Philadelphia and AIA Pennsylvania Chapters.