The algae house

"Edith Hemmrich, Mark Blaschitz and Jan Wurm discuss the world's first building equipped with an algae bioreactor facade [...] Together with three other "Smart Material Houses", the prototypical building by SPLITTERWEK and Arup forms part of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Hamburg. Microalgae are cultivated in glass photobioreactors to generate energy and, at the same time, to control light and shade. With its innovative floor plan typologies "Hamburg Apartment" and "Milan Apartment", the "Case Study House" presents contemporary refinements of Frank Lloyd Wright's "open plan", Adolf Loos's "Raumplan", and Margarete Shütte-Lihotzky's "Frankfurt Kitchen". The publication with recent essays and initial summary features detailed plans and visuals from the frist hand-drawn sketches, floor plans, cross-sections and details to a photo essay by the import Austrian architectural photographer Paul Ott"-- Back cover.