No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑 by Oliver Schutte is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 铂金奖 in 可持续产品、项目与绿色设计 Competition Category.
铂金可持续产品· 2025
No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑
Client: A-01
A' Design Award 铂金奖 Winner in 可持续产品 Category
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The Design
About No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑
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The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铂金奖
No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑是 A' Design Award 铂金奖得主，这是授予真正卓越、优雅和宏伟设计的极具声望的认可。铂金奖得主是创造的奇迹，是智力创造力极限的见证，展现出其设计师无与伦比的专业精神和天才。这些设计被期待成为定义一个时代的美学、造福社会、并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术边界的最负盛名的作品。No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑展现出超凡脱俗的卓越水准，以其有益而宝贵的特质毫无疑问地让世界变得更美好。No Footprint Wood House 住宅建筑是一件赢得 A' Design Award 铂金奖的作品，它唤起欲望，启发人心，令人愉悦，并迸发出巨大的喜悦。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The No Footprint Wood House is located along the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Its bioclimatic design integrates with the surrounding tropical forests and natural habitat. The project forms part of the ongoing No Footprint House series. Climate-responsive building variations are based on passive design strategies such as site-specific positioning and the use of natural resources. Industrial building techniques are combined with locally harvested and regenerative construction materials.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The laminated wood system is an attractive and locally sourced resource to configure any model of the No Footprint House series. Alternative structural materials can be chosen according to the specific performance criteria, building location and budget. The production process is defined to deliver the project efficiently to any target location. Completely autonomous configurations are available for off-grid locations, including on-site energy production and waste water treatment.
- Tags
- Bioclimatic, Architecture, Sustainability, Regeneration, Residential, Development, Tropical, Climate, Modular, Design
- Production Technology
- The different modulations of the No Footprint House series are based on a three-by-three-meter spatial grid layout. Spaces can be configured by the clients according to the personal necessities and budgets. In the case of the wooden house, the specific client asked for two separate private areas of two levels each on both sides of the overall structure, combined with a nine-by-nine-meter double-height social area in between the two private wings. The two private areas are serviced by a central service core on each side, including the staircases, bathrooms and closets. It was the wish of the client to materialize the whole building in wood.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge of the No Footprint House series, including the No Footprint Wood House as an expression of its ongoing material development progress, is to unite a broad variety of entities in a joined multistakeholder approach. Such broadness and systemic thinking are required to find solutions for some of the greatest challenges of our time, which includes the decarbonization of all sectors that significantly contribute to global carbon emissions, proposing concrete actions and solutions.
- Research
- Costa Rica has shifted from a strategy of sustainability to regenerative development. This condition creates numerous implications for housing. In this context, the No Footprint Wood House drives innovation through the development and incorporation of renewable and locally sourced materials in combination with passive design strategies and local energy production. The project is optimized through industrial and prefabricated building techniques, the first of its kind in Central America.
- Inspiration
- The No Footprint Wood House is based on the some of the history of prefabricated housing schemes in distant locations, such as the Maison Tropicale by Jean Prouve or the Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller. The project is also based on a roadmap to level carbon emissions Costa Rica. In this context, the modular building design options provide individual home owners with a variety of opportunities to contribute to the collective goal of balancing carbon emissions.
- Project Duration
- The actual project duration of each project depends on the specific building size and its respective location. Beyond the building of the house, many of our clients also engage in related strategies of sustainability and regenerative development. This can include strategies reforestation, the creation of food forests, permaculture, local energy production and continuous life cycle improvement. The duration of these aspects can be described as ongoing and potentially endless.
- Operation Flow
- The No Footprint Wood House has created different levels of interaction. On one hand, there is the classic relation from our team of architects and interior designers with clients and client groups. Moreover, the research arm of the No Footprint House project engages with universities and local material providers to continuously work on the development of improved building solutions that create community benefits with reduced environmental impact and cost, improving overall project performance.
- Patents
- Copyrights to all building designs belong to A-01 (A Company / A Foundation). The laminated wood system is produced by Woodpecker Costa Rica.
- Image Credits
- A-01 / Fernando Alda
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