The Plan: Tear Down a McMansion And Use the Materials to Build Two Small Homes

澳大利亚悉尼 - 一支由澳大利亚建筑师和艺术家组成的团队宣布了一项计划，以仔细拆除现有的麦克马尼翁，并使用打捞的材料在同一地点建造两座小型节能房屋。团队成员现在正在寻求一个愿意捐赠麦克马什的房主，以帮助环保和表演艺术的双胞胎事业。

激进主义者保证，在该项目的结尾，被称为转世的McMansion，这两个新房屋将成为不需要的怪物房屋的捐助者的财产。该项目吸引了几个赞助商，包括澳大利亚艺术理事会。

The Reincarnated McMansion team envisions creating two small homes with green features. According to the team’s Web site, the plan is to “orientate the new buildings to best engage local climatic conditions to enhance buildings’ and site’s passive thermal performance; to introduce natural ventilation strategies; to introduce passive winter solar gain; to introduce solar hot water and solar power; and to introduce rainwater storage and a grey-water biofiltration system in the form of external garden pools.”

One of the project’s team members is architect Mathieu Gallois. “We’re excited about the reuse of the bricks, tiles, and cement,” said Gallois. “The idea is to crush them into an earthy mix and reuse them for a type of rammed-earth wall.”

Another architect on the team is Tone Wheeler of Sydney. “There are so many houses out there that are just badly built and worn out — big objects with lots of little rooms in them but not much good design,” said Wheeler. “A big house with only two or three people rattling around in it is just not an efficient object or living arrangement. The density of our cities needs to be greatly increased, so we’re anticipating that this project will be a precursor to something that becomes increasingly common in the future.”

In a radio interview, Wheeler was asked whether it wouldn’t be easier to create a duplex by adding another couple of exterior doors and a few more partitions to the McMansion. Explaining the need to start from scratch, Wheeler answered, “Maybe the house of the future will be inside-out, upside-down, and back-to-front. Putting bricks on the outside is really the wrong way around; the bricks should be on the inside for thermal mass. And we should be living upstairs, not downstairs, because the upstairs has more access to sun. And it would be better to put the cars in the back of the house instead of the front. Alternations and additions tend to make these problems worse.”

要了解有关该项目的更多信息，请访问www.reincarnatedmcmansion.com。

GBA extends thanks to Jon Vara of Energy Design Update for his reporting on the Reincarnated McMansion story.