March 31, 2008 at 4:12 am
·Tags: Cellophane House, Home Delivery, KieranTimberlake, KieranTimberlake Associates, MoMA
We will be forever grateful to the MoMA for having the audacity to fund such an ambitious exhibit, Home Delivery , that will feature some of the best names in modern prefab. In addition to the exhibit, they have started a corresponding blog profiling the homes that will be displayed. We will continue to highlight some of the interesting output of this blog.
Continue reading for an excerpt from the entry about the Cellophane House as well as more photos.
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Cellophane House encompasses the architects’ beliefs in a holistic approach to design: allowing architecture to grow out of its opportunities and constraints. It is a material moment of equilibrium that surrenders itself to any and all entropic forces that may come its way. At its core, the project is no more than a framework from which a designer or client creates an enclosure using a virtually infinite palette of off-the-shelf entities, a veritable model of customization. Through simple modifications, the house can adapt to a range of site conditions, as well as to material, textural, and color options as required by the budget and tastes of the client.
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How do I find out more about this type of construction . A web site ,book or any other reference would be helpful
Great Design.
1. Please forward information on procedure to negotiate a license agreement to
build one or more units in San francisco, CA. and:
1a. Copy of plans. specifications and structural calculations. (For review only)
1b. Cost breakdown of production, transportation and erection costs as compared to conventionally built building.
Information will only be usewd to evualate feasibility of building similiar modular building in Hunters Point San Francisco to be sponsored by Hunters View Tenants Association Inc. (HVTA)
The undersigned a CA Civil Engineer is the development consultant to HVTA.
Through Mco Consulting engineers LLC. , 178 Marietta Drive,San Francisco, CA , 94127-1842 Telphone: 415-333-7290, Cell: 415-420-7418.
Ulysses J. Montgomery
I went to the MOMA exhibit and toured the Cellophane House. I loved it except for one slight problem: the heavy plastic floor panels have about a 1/4 gap, meaning that if you spilled any sticky substance (coke, orange juice, etc.), you would pretty much have to pressure wash the floor from the the top and from the room below because the substance would leak onto the steel beams in the floor below the spill. Is there a way to seal these gaps in the flooring when you build the permanent structure? If there were a way around that problem, I would live in a Cellophane house in a minute. Great design, lots of space, really wonderful except for the flooring issue.
Amy Marks wrote @ July 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Just some information on the manufacturer of the Cellophane House and the Kullman Bathroom Pods in the installation…
Kullman, the leading worldwide provider of offsite constructed permanent steel and concrete multi-story buildings, as well as Kullman Bathroom Pods, has been retained by KieranTimberlake Associates of Philadelphia to build the Cellophane House for the Museum of Modern Artís (MoMA) exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
Made of recyclable materials and equipped with photovoltaic panels for electricity and polypropylene panels for thermal insulation, the Cellophane House will be one of five full-scale prefabricated houses on exhibit in the outdoor space to the west of MoMA’s building. Keeping with its moniker, the Cellophane House will be constructed utilizing mostly translucent materials.
Designed to be taken apart as easily as it is constructed, the house ís extruded aluminum frame is bolted together, and glass windows slide into place, eliminating the need for welding.
The project includes the assembly of the 14 sections for the five-story building in the companyís Lebanon, N.J., factory, as well as delivery to the exhibit site. The project also includes two Kullman Bathroom Pods, six-foot by eight-foot bathrooms with an outer shell constructed entirely of glass reinforced plastic (very similar to fiberglass) and connected to a steel frame, designed by Hopkins Architects Ltd. Outfitted with plumbing fixtures by Duravit, the Kullman Bathroom Pods include finished ceilings, wall finishes and light fixtures and are completed in the factory with plumbing, electrical and waste lines ready for plug & play installation once on site. Kullman Bathroom Pods were delivered to the project site, hoisted and set in place along with the house’s 14 sections. Kullman Bathroom Pods are used for multi-story living spaces, hotels, hospitals, student and military housing.
The exhibit opens on July 20, 2008 and runs through October 20, 2008.
“Kullman is proud to partner with KieranTimberlake for the building of the Cellophane House,” says Avi Telyas, CEO of Kullman. “This exhibit spotlights a movement toward mass customization in architecture, which will bridge the gap between offsite construction and manufacturing industries. Though offsite construction is currently not as prevalent in the United States as it is in Europe, we believe this exhibit will help make the case toward its viability and benefits versus conventionally constructed structures.”
About Kullman
Kullman is the leading worldwide provider of offsite constructed permanent steel and concrete multi-story buildings and Kullman Bathroom Pods to a broad range of markets including education, healthcare, telecommunications, hospitality, government, and others. Utilizing Toyota’s Lean Manufacturing techniques and Lean Construction project delivery systems, Kullman dramatically minimizes project site disruption, decreases the total project cost, and delivers a complete building in up to half the time of conventional construction. For over 80 years, Kullman has worked as a strategic partner with top architects and construction management firms offering design-build services that deliver architecturally robust buildings satisfying the most discerning clients. Headquartered in Lebanon, N.J., Kullman employs more than 190 professionals and craftsmen who perform many of the usually subcontracted trades in-house, thereby reducing project risks and additional transactions costs, while streamlining project delivery. Kullman’s executives and project managers bring over 200 years of offsite construction experience to projects and jobsites. For more information on Kullman, call (908) 236-0220 or visit http://www.kullman.com.
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thanks. I like your style.
Elizabeth K.
Loved the house, where can I find those windows? We would like to include them in our current project, a 7th story infill in Jersey City?
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