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UAE House of the Future.

Title:: UAE House of the Future
Architect:: Rangr Studio
Category:: Planning/; Renders
Photographers:: Rangr

A response to a competition named "House of the Future," our design proposed a paradigm shift through a change in zoning code: allow structures to hug the South line of a housing lot, to open a courtyard to the North. The resulting structure opens to the cooler air in the shade of the desert sun, with a pool and openings that promote passive cooling through the house.

Historical examples from middle-eastern architecture, such as wind towers, informed the design to maximize passive cooling strategies. The addition of a long and narrow pool at the courtyard, placed immediately adjacent to the living area, provides cooling by evaporation, as well as a reservoir of water.

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Rangr Studio. Since 2004, Rangr Studio has deployed the principles of ancient design with contemporary materials and methods to find poetic and harmonious solutions to a wide variety of design challenges. Rather than imposing a structure on an environment, the Studio creates essential architectural forms in harmony with the surrounding landscape–whether rural or urban in setting. Founder Jasmit Singh Rangr grew up on the coasts of India, and in the UK, was educated at Yale, and is currently bi-coastal between California and New York. His life experience and training inform Rangr Studio’s philosophy — an approach that is deeply sensitive to the interaction between climate, landscape, culture, and architecture. From his time and travels in India, Rangr has drawn inspiration from the Mughal architects’ mastery of solar energy, air and water, as well ancient Indian step-wells’ profound integration of landscape and culture. His formal training taught him to think of architecture as the creation of space between forms, and to think of context as a pre-existing and vital part of every architectural design solution. And through his practical experience building in an era of climate crisis, Rangr has learned to look simultaneously to the future and to the past for solutions by pioneering innovative uses of new, sustainable materials and reinvigorating ancient design principles that respect the earth’s limited resources and the life-giving power of the sun.