SO-IL imagines a future of sustainable city living with smog-filtering MINI Living house
New York firm SO-IL has built a prototype house at the MINI Living space in Milan, featuring a white mesh exterior designed to filter polluted city air, and a plant-covered roof.
Installed for the duration of Milan design week, the MINI Living ? Breathe installation is a "resource-conscious" housing prototype that offers a sustainable solution to shared, compact city living.
It is on of the focuses of the Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative, an investigation into how architecture and design can contribute to a brighter urban future.
To make the most of the narrow courtyard site, SO-IL stacked up living spaces to create a slim, three-storey modular structure, which can accommodate up to three people and include up to six potential rooms.
The white mesh skin wrapping the house is coated with PVC, designed to filter and neutralise air. The roof garden on top is filled with plants intended to further improve air quality and the urban microclimate.
Inside the house, the light-permeable textile walls separate spaces. They also offers plenty of natural light inside, as well as offering views between the different areas ? and not much privacy.
"MINI Living ? Breathe brings its residents into direct contact with their environment," said SO-IL co-director Ilias Papageorgiou. "By making living an active experience, the installation encourages visitors to confront our tendency to take resources for granted."
"We view the installa...
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