8 Minutes, 20 Seconds
40,00€
Housing After Banking Encrypting the Sun
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong
Energy generated by nuclear fusion of the Sun reaches the surface of the Earth in 8 minutes and 20 seconds. 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds imagines an architecture based on renewable energy, caching forms of energy that are essentially inexhaustible and persistent, and virtually non-denumerable in quantity. It anticipates a post-scarcity era enabled and reorganized by a new form of housing that serves as an arbiter of post-sustainability human settlements.
Proposing a new form of housing only achievable through advanced manufacturing we ask: “what if what was a housing asset becomes a new form of energy asset whose downstream by-product is shelter?”
Description
Authors: Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong
Graphic Design: Ramon Prat
Size: 20,2 x 24,4 cm / 7.95 x 9.61 in
Pages: 380
Size: 20,2 x 24,4 cm / 7.95 x 9.61 in
Pages: 380
Illustrations: Color
Cover: Hardcover
Cover: Hardcover
Publication date: March 2025
ISBN: 9781638401834
Price: $44.95/ 40€/ £40
ISBN: 9781638401834
Price: $44.95/ 40€/ £40
Additional information
| Weight | 1 kg |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong |
| excerpt | Energy generated by nuclear fusion of the Sun reaches the surface of the Earth in 8 minutes and 20 seconds. |
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