Werner Sobek's homes

Designing a built space that allows its inhabitants to live happily and in harmony with nature, reducing production of wastes and using less resources and fossil fuels and generating more solar energy, is a goal to which Stuttgart architect and engineer Werner Sobek has dedicated more than 20 years of research. His efforts translated into a series of experimental projects, single-family homes that have set the new benchmark for aesthetic value and technological capacity. A vast overview of projects collected in the recent volume Residentials by Werner Sobek, edited by Frank Heinlein and published by Avedition.

Projects presented include the R128 home in Stuttgart, Werner Sobek's first Triple Zero House. A Triple Zero House is a house that uses no energy from fossil fuels (zero energy), does not emit greenhouse gases (zero emissions) and produces no wastes as almost all wastes are recyclable (zero waste). The principle guided all the architect and engineer's subsequent projects, which even include residences that produce more energy than they consumer, such as D10 in Biberach an der Riß, F87 in Berlin, where the excess energy is used to power two electric cars and an e-bike, and B10. House B10 currently represents the peak of Werner Sobek's achievements: an Aktivhaus in the famous Weissenhof district of Stuttgart, which yields its excess energy to a second building in the vicinity.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Frank Heinlein, “Residentials by Werner Sobek”, Avedition, Stuttgart 2015
ISBN 978-3-89986-235-5, 160 pages, 28 euros (D)

Images courtesy of Werner Sobek Group GmbH & Avedition, photo by Zooey Braun, Arnulf Hettrich, Matthias Koslik, Pasi Toivianen.

www.wernersobek.de
www.avedition.de

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