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Sustainable Housing Concepts

This Plug-In Housing Aims to Minimize Energy Costs for Homes

— March 18, 2014 — Eco
A team of French designers and architects have come up with a concept design for a sustainable plug-in housing structure. 'Live-Lib,' the concept for a two-part residential building, consists of small capsule-like homes that provide privacy to their tenants even while their utilities such as electricity and water are managed by city authorities.

The concept has a central hub tower which contains systems for electricity, energy production, ventilation, water and waste management, with related expenses managed by the city.

The outside of the hub buildings feature ports where individual capsule-like homes can be plugged in. These capsules would be the property of their resident owners. However, inhabitants of these capsule homes would share services provided by the hub through a plug exchange whose usage would be monitored so that residents are charged fairly according to their use of resources.

The plug-in housing concept is designed to provide privacy to tenants while making use of sustainable communal resources to minimize energy usage and related costs.
Trend Themes
1. Plug-in Housing - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Designing plug-in housing structures that utilize sustainable communal resources to minimize energy usage and related costs.
2. Sustainable Communal Resources - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing systems for managing electricity, energy production, ventilation, water, and waste management in a central hub building to reduce environmental impact and minimize costs for residents.
3. Fair Resource Allocation - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Implementing plug exchanges and usage monitoring systems to ensure fair resource allocation and billing based on individual consumption in plug-in housing structures.
Industry Implications
1. Architecture - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Redesigning residential buildings to incorporate plug-in housing concepts that promote sustainable communal resources and energy-efficient living.
2. Utilities - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing advanced systems for managing electricity, energy production, ventilation, water, and waste management to support plug-in housing structures and optimize resource allocation.
3. Real Estate - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Introducing plug-in housing structures as a sustainable and cost-effective housing solution to meet the evolving needs and preferences of homebuyers.
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