Tomorrow Dwell Development will celebrate the completion of the House of the Immediate Future (HOIF) at our Columbia Station sustainable community and adjacent to our award winning Passive House!  The keys to the four bedroom, 1,400 square foot home will be handed over to the proud homeowner, Mohammed Mohammednur, his wife, mother-in-law, 10-year-old daughter and twin 5-year-old sons later in the day in a private dedication ceremony honoring the family and all those who worked on the home.

The home was designed to fit in with Dwell Development homes by The Miller Hull Partnership, a firm known for sustainable design that is simple and appropriate to its setting in style and materials.   It was first built in 2012 at the Seattle Center as part the Next 50 anniversary celebration of the 1962 World’s Fair, reminiscent of an exhibit at the original event.

After serving as a demonstration house to show ways in which green building design and techniques can be applied on a modest and affordable scale, the structure was disassembled and relocated.  Its permanent home is in our 42-home sustainable micro-community–one of the largest of its kind in the country, situated in southeast Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. In addition to releasing this parcel of land to Habitat SKC, Dwell was a major partner, doing all the excavation, site utilities, foundations, backfill and final grade.

HOIF utilizes a hybrid construction approach that is part modular, part site-built. Habitat SKC and Miller Hull partnered with Method Homes, who constructed the home’s prefabricated ‘wet core,’ (concentrated mechanical room, kitchen, and bathroom systems). In this way, skilled labor — including plumbing and electrical work — is centralized and completed before arriving to the site, while still allowing for volunteers, a key component of the Habitat model, to complete the balance of construction.

For more information on our U. S. Department of Energy Challenge Home Award visit:

http://dwelldevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/BA_ChallengeHome_DwellDevelopment_100213SMALL.pdf

For more information, photos and videos of the house, please visit: http://www.habitatskc.org/house-of-the-immediate-future/