COMMUNITY underlies all technological success. No advances in residential building design and technology truly matter if single families remain isolated and independent of one another. This design suggests that community interdependence is the necessary foundation for future growth. One home shelters one family, but creates a resource that benefits many. Excess energy is distributed to offset conventional power production while communal waste is retained on site, collected and treated to nurture common garden space. In time, this seed of shared resources spreads through common design to create a fundamental line between individual and whole.

Cradle to Cradle House in Roanoke, Virginia by Matthew Coates & Tim Meldrum

2005.04.18