{"id":838,"date":"2016-02-29T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=838"},"modified":"2018-01-04T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:37:08","slug":"monsanto-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/monsanto-house\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a question as to whether \u2018in architecture, will atomic processes create a new plastic order?\u2019\u00a0and so MIT decided to \u2018use plastics as Plastics\u2019\u200a\u2014\u200awith vertically opposite cantilevers in place to enforce the material\u2019s strength at scale. Importantly this \u2018order\u2019\u200a\u2014\u200astemming from plastic fabrication techniques and structural potentialities\u200a\u2014\u200ahad begun to generate its own aesthetic typology. A mechanised kitchen and bathroom unit sat at the centre above the core, with the four glazed wings cantilevering radially from this point to form the living spaces. Polarised plastic ceiling panels moderated the intensity and type of luminosity, a dishwasher functioned via ultrasonic waves and cold zones replaced refrigerator units and emerged from the ceiling \u2018at the touch of a button\u2019.\u00a0Storage shelves, too, were of plastic fabrication and lowered electronically from overhead. A similarly concealed microwave unit permitted the cooking of various products simultaneously and with haste. A climate control panel was affixed to the kitchen wall above the energy core, offering multi-zone temperature differentiation and even the dispersion of variable scents (such as salted air) to specific rooms. The floors were of vinyl plastic to showcase the material\u2019s durability and ease of maintenance. Such material homogeneity extended into the three bedrooms and fabrics within the\u00a0House of the Future<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most profound piece of functional gadgetry within the design, a pushbutton telephone intercom unit, was installed that dismissed the need to dial, with an embedded surveillance system facilitating the sighting of guests as they approached the entrance. The overtly curvilinear palette borrowed much from Buckminster Fuller’s\u00a0Dymaxion<\/em>\u00a0and extended from the outer walls to the furnishings, appliances and partitions. The rooms, too, were furnished with streamline moderne pieces and as summated within the promotional copy the House offered: \u2018a dream of the future brought to reality\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walt Disney Imagineering and MIT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}