Interesting Report on the Home of the Future

I just ran across a really thought provoking item at TreeHugger.com; an interesting post from last summer that was recently revisited as one of their top picks of products and ideas for the home of the future. It's a study on the home of 2080 by Zurich Insurance and Arup Associates (a global design, engineering, planning and business consultancy). The study keys in on four major aspects of the home of the future: energy, resources, social and environment. Important ideas like the end of the commute, rooftop gardening, intelligent insulation, biomimicry, and design for multiple generations and stages of life are discussed, among many others. You can download the full .pdf file summary of the report from the Arup site.

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