An astounding project in Vals (yes the place of Zumthor’s termal baths) by SeARCH in collaboration with Christian Müller Architects – A mountain home, in a mountain.
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Got a large home you’d like to subdivide for privacy or partition off to create a home office area? Here’s a modular PVC wall divider system that can connect up to 5 screens while also powering a built-in lighting system. The system is comprised of middle unit, which plugs in and powers an internal lighting system. A 3 screen room divider is 30 1/4″w x 8 5/8″d x 72 3/4″h and costs $1999 from InMod. Admittedly not cheap, but a whole lot easier than building or tearing down a wall.
source: Unplggd
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Icewall One, the Australia-based manufacturer designed these pre-fabricated remote shelter to create an instant and transportable home away from home for scientists based in inclement climes. But they don’t have to function only as research stations. Eco tourists like them too. Made of lightweight fiberglass, the modular igloo consists of 8 molded wall panels with 4 self-supporting floor panels. The fiberglass walls have polyurethane insulation with an R-value of a little over R-5; better than a tent, and there is ventilation at the top.
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WiTricity is working on a wireless power solution that can send power over short distances, thereby reducing the need for wires and cables. The system uses resonant magnetic coupling – essentially a form of radio trasnmission – that can send enough power to charge cellphones or run a television. The actual technology is still a ways of – near field charging will probably appear before this does – but it’s nice to know someone is trying.
“The company showed how a transmitting unit, which could be placed in a wall, could power a television set several feet away. The chief executive of the company, Eric Giler, also showed how the system could wirelessly charge a G1 cellphone equipped with an antenna unit so small it could fit inside the phone case.” [LA Times Blog]
source: cruchgear
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