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Competition: Pilkington Glasshouse Competition
Team: Erno Langenberg, Joris Hekkenberg, Ronald Wisse
Year: 2002
Tags: Architecture, Sustainability, Flexibility, Solar energy, glass

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Skin: glass window panes applied to a steel structure define a protecting skin. This is a durable ecological shell, an intelligent system analogue to the natural skin, able to ventilate and transpire. On the inside of this transparent protecting dome it’s possible to build a flexible, light weight structure of wood and canvas.
Space: the inside spaces are enclosed and private, as opposed to the spaces facing the outside. A rotating sunscreen act as a fig leaf and can change the privacy and illumination per room. The spaces facing the outside are more dependent on the weather conditions, therefore in wintertime it’s possible to retreat to the inside spaces and use the outer rooms as a buffer for climate control.
Flexibility: here flexibility is derived by offering a wide variety of different spaces without a fixed function. Nomadic forms of habitation can be discovered by the residents and changed over  time.

 
 
Triangular windows can be opened for ventilation and the transpiration nozzle, at the steel junction, can spray water to cool down the skin.