Lisa Gray shares her insight and experience creating the Ecological Living Module, a concept that manages for every aspect of tomorrow’s housing needs.
By Jennifer Castenson | Hive
This house does it all, yet, it occupies a very small footprint. The Ecological Living Module (ELM) is built for a family of four as an affordable solution for the more than one billion people around the world without access to secure, comfortable, affordable housing.
In its pursuit to bring housing to people in places that are hard to reach and have very limited resources, ELM also is self-sustainable. It is built from locally sourced, bio-based renewable materials and operates on solar energy and on-site water collection, where potable water can be captured from air humidity. Which, again, makes the ongoing management and performance more affordable and limits the overuse of natural resources.
