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It’s a type of hacking-but with a deeper philosophy.” NOEM worked with a firm called Eco High Tech to specify the products and hardware, and with Securalis, a French company, to test the system’s security. “We always use standard protocols that are readily available, so that the home automation system can be added to and altered in the future by the users. “We used available technology and made an open-hardware interface that integrates the whole thing,” Guiu says. At the touch of two built-in iPads (or his own smartphone), the owner can manipulate water and air temperature, heating and cooling, electricity consumption, illumination, security devices, and blinds, as well as read a real-time picture of the night sky. One contains the bedroom-studio one the living area and another holds the kitchen, bathroom, and “hub”-the impressive nerve center of the home with its sleek, violet control panel. The Spaceship House is made up of three polished metal-clad modules. “He basically told us he wanted a mother ship,” says Pol Guiu, cofounder of NOEM. While the owner of the Spaceship House was attracted to NOEM’s use of technology and commitment to sustainability, he also had quite a few aesthetic demands. Even if they do not, NOEM claims that by making the modules completely airtight, wrapping them in a nearly 10-inch-thick layer of wool insulation, and installing a heat-recovery ventilation system, the houses consume 75 percent less energy than a traditional structure of the same dimensions. The architects use BIM (building information modeling) software, which leaves virtually no room for construction errors-vital for the correct functioning of the hardware the owner chooses to install. Specializing in passive housing fitted with varying degrees of smart technology, NOEM designs houses in modules, made from Pyrenean pinewood in local factories and put together on-site, a process that can take as little as six weeks from start to finish. NOEM, a young, Barcelona-based design-build firm, conceived the Spaceship House. It’s raised 12 feet off the ground to offer better views of the landscape, lending it “the futuristic feeling that it just landed,” says Pol Guiu, one of NOEM’s cofounders. NOEM, a Barcelona-based architecture firm, created a metal-clad house for a young client just outside Madrid. It brings together sustainable building design, smart home technology, and the vision of its owner, a die-hard science-fiction fan. Passersby may assume it’s a folly put up by one of the neighborhood’s well-heeled residents for their kids, but this retro-futuristic structure is a functioning home for adults. This Futuristic Prefab in Spain Has All the High-Tech Gizmos of a Spaceship - John Eric Real EstateĪ sci-fi-inspired prefab with an efficient edge is grounded in real-world technology.Ī UFO has landed in La Moraleja, a leafy enclave on the outskirts of Madrid.