TALLINN ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE | FOREVER HOME
2019
‘Unlike a traditional housing model, Foreverhome is transportable. Owners can move their home into a super structure, forming instant communities or potentially relocate it to a block of land as a single residence. The interchangeable residential tower is more akin to a vertical village than a typical extruded tower.’
As the impacts of the climate crisis escalate and a global housing shortage accelerates, Foreverhome challenges archaic construction and procurement methods by proposing new architectural typologies. The project describes a radical shift in housing systems that have been promised by architecture since the 50s, but only now has the technology advanced enough to deliver the vision. Foreverhome reimagines housing production as factory made (potentially an ex-automotive plant), engineered timber modules from Glu-Lam or Cross Laminated Timber (CLT).
Modules are available in various sizes, with a range of auxiliary parts designed to customise the module to varying climatic and site-specific requirements as well as lifestyle choices. Unlike a traditional housing model, Foreverhome is transportable. Owners can move their home into a super structure, forming instant communities or potentially relocate it to a block of land as a single residence. The interchangeable residential tower is more akin to a vertical village than a typical extruded tower.
Each module is unique and independent, so the possibility exists to constantly replace parts as components are upgraded to new environmental performance standards. Beneficially, timber is a 100 per cent renewable material with its production permanently removing CO² from the atmosphere rather than contributing to it. Plantation forestry combined with new technologies for fabrication, documentation and construction should be the focus of a carbon- and community-positive housing industry.
