Soft House

The SOFT HOUSE in Hamburg, Germany is a set of live/work row house units which offer a new model for low carbon construction and an ecologically responsive lifestyle. The Soft House demonstrates how domestic infrastructure can become ‘soft’—engaging flexible living concepts, carbon-neutral solid wood construction, and wireless building controls with responsive and performative textiles which create the public identity of the architecture. Through the conceptual reframing of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ materials and the integration of architecture, mobile textiles, and clean energy infrastructure the SOFT HOUSE transforms the German PassiveHaus typology, offering a more flexible living experience. PROJECT DEVELOPERS: IBA Hamburg GmbH (City of Hamburg) PATRIZIA Projektentwicklung GmbH \ LEAD ARCHITECT: Kennedy & Violich Architecture

Site Supervision

ARCHITECTS: 360grad+ architekten LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS: G2 Landschaft STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering CLIMATE PLANNING: Steinbeis Forschungsinstitut für Solare und Zukunftsfähige Thermische Energiesysteme HEATING, VENTILATION & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS: Buro Happold

Soft House Manufacturing

CONSORTIUM: Global Solar Energy, Inc; Svensson Global, AG; Philips Color Kinetics Headquarters; Philips Eindhoven Lighting; Automatic Devices Company, Inc.; L-tronics, Inc.; Holzbau Merkle; Textilbau Gmbh. PHOTOGRAPHER: Michael Moser Links: - https://vimeo.com/95850901