Zero Needs Nada, Makes & Recycles Power, Water, Waste
By Joe Wertz
The zeroHouse is anything but a void. It’s a vessel that stores people and collects rainwater with a gravity-fed plumbing system that fills a 2,700-gallon cistern. Designed by Scott Specht at NYC architecture and design firm Specht Harpman, the prefabricated home helps its owners live completely off the electrical grid with rooftop solar panels and battery bank that stores enough power to run the house continuously for a week without sunlight and a “digester unit” beneath the house recycles waste, converting it into compost that only needs to be removed twice a year. All these systems can be customized and automated with a centralized computer system that monitors the details with embedded sensors. [via behance, zerohouse]
