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barcode
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 Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: Looking for Jetsons style house plans |
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The ESA Space House started me thinking. Is there a place that has CAD drawings of homes like this?
I would want it all wired and plumbed up. It would be great if, just like Charles Eames did for his own house, the drawings could have links to commercial catalogs for all the parts used to create it.
Whole house surge suppression and lightning rods would need to be included. Also home automation to control the HVAC, lighting, plumbing and the motorized pocket doors.
Pocket doors are at:
It would be great if every major plumbing junction had one of those valves that shut itself off when it noticed that a major leak was occuring.
That plumbing thing is sort of like:
It would also be great if the circuit breaker panel box was controllable by computer, and if it had an ammeter on every circuit. There is the Watts Up PRO but I REALLY NEED it to be on EVERY circuit AT THE BREAKER BOX !!!!
Also, futuristic bathrooms are very high on my mind. Buckminster Fuller's bathroom had some right ideas, but I believe that proper sanitation requires flooding your bathroom with ozone while you are not in it, illuminating it with a germicidal UV light, and making it self-cleaning.
Actually, all surfaces and built-in storage and the furniture should be angled and spaced out in such a way as to make it possible for a Roomba (and the dusting robot that I'm sure will be coming soon from iRobot) to clean without a problem.
All rooms should have air quality sensors in addition to independent thermostats.
Finally, all this home theater nonsense has to stop. Here is how to do it right:
1) Get a climate controlled cabinet
2) Put a bunch of servers in it (one for every room in your house that you want to have media), with storage and software and even CD/DVD changers
3) Run fiber to every room
4) Put a multi-user KVM in front of your rack, and run the video, audio, keyboard and mouse down the fiber to a jack in each room.
5) Each room can have it's own wireless keyboard and monitor and speakers. You can start watching a movie in one room and move it to or share it with any other rooms.
6) You can put your home PC in the rack as well, and access your email or whatever from any room in the house.
7) Those high end KVMs offer password protection, so you can restrict who sees what. |
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SDR
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well -- the barcode knows what it wants ! Seems like a very tech-intensive lifestyle -- or is that an illusion ? Perhaps this is the future speaking -- the house we all aspire to, in one sense.
Should all this gadgetry operate as invisably as possible, leaving the occupant(s) free to. . .live ?
Is it a recipe for life (in first-world countries, at least) tomorrow ?
At the very least, we've been given some neat-o links to details of building technology. My favorite is the first one -- the ESA Space house.
It's retro-fantastic !
Thanks for that, barcode. . .
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barcode
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| Also, at least we need a round refrigerator so that old food won't get forgotten at the back. |
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SDR
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:37 am Post subject: |
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The "Dymaxion Spirit" lives. . .!
[The short answer to your question, "Is there a place that has CAD drawings of homes like this" is, regrettably, "no." When something new is proposed, the proposer is the one who must "see it done." Are you in a position to commission such a design ? Perhaps a consortium of the manufacturers of all the components you have referenced, could be persuaded to fund such a project -- shades of the heady 'fifties, when the first modernists did very much the same thing. Rock on !]
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