Welcome to
Circle Haus

Hello prospective Resident! what is a Circle Haus?
A new kind of neighborhooding —
R.I.P. the “nuclear family.” CircleHaus residents across generations live in pods grouped in symbiotic clusters
House becomes home —
Forget your old hovel, dwelling, or house. Shape and create a dynamic home that feels yours.
Circular or bust —
Ecosystems in balance are self-generating. You’ll live in a dynamic vessel structured to supply basic creature comforts, but also adapt to social need.

First
Principles

In their first attempts at innovation, the bean sprouts asked themselves: What is the 2020 status quo for housing?

HOW TO HOUSE 2020

Their realization? The status quo was stupid. Antiquated. Static. Surely there must have been some who already realized this… and there were!

The bean sprouts researched the fearless few who rejected all house-building norms and drew inspiration from their core principles to form their own set!

More on their 5 principles -> Here

Some radical individuals lived completely off-the-grid, modeling after ancient villagers.

'MEDIEVAL' VILLAGE

Others designed brand-new housing models symbiotic with natural ecosystems.

EARTHSHIPS

Construction
of a 'Pod'

The circle.house is not a single, individual unit, but a collection of dynamic “pods” intertwined with one another.

The first pod needed to be perfect. It would inspire all the others!

In the first pod, the wizards addressed core human needs for survival. They incorporated circular technologies of the 2020s that effectively addressed these needs, first starting with energy + temperature control

Ground SOURCe geothermal

Then moving in on food.

Vertical farming

Shape shifting shelter from the elements

Dynamic Shade Structures

Before moving into building a larger network of pods, they took one last look at their self-sustaining unit. What were the inputs and outputs?

Permeability: the i/o of a house

After perfecting the first pod, the wizards began to invite “Homestayers” to live in their inventive new housing structure. However, the wizards soon realized the pods couldn’t sustain without a strong shared services infrastructure throughout the greater circle.house community.

Shared
Infrastructure

Homestayers moved in throngs into the first circle.house pods.

As population density increased, innovative infrastructures were incorporated to dynamically shift with an evolving community.

First, previously cosmetic space was transformed into novel spaces that would nurture the community.

YARD TO FARM

Walls reconfigured at the drop of a hat to create dynamic spaces that could nourish any form of human activity.

DYNAMIC WALLS
CAPSULE CONNECTION

Energy was captured through renewable sources and stored so that the mining of fossil fuels from Earth was no longer necessary.

ENERGY CAPTURE

The Social Construction
of 'Home'

As Homestayers eased into the circle.house model, they reconciled with past housing habits of superfluous materialism, self-created isolation, and rigid structures impervious to change.

It actually required very little for a space to feel truly “home.”

MINIMUM VIABLE HOME

A more socially-intuitive home was one that paralleled a Homestayer’s growth: from birth to adolescence, to parenting to aging.

INTERGENERATIONAL HOUSING

circle.house began expanding into even more social services, such as tending to corporal and mental health needs.

Homestayers welcomed the return of the “modern hospital” back into the home (as it had been modeled in earlier civilizations).

HOSPITAL DESIGN

With social systems solidified and basic physical needs tended to, Homestayers found themselves achieving greater levels of human flourishing.

Living, thriving, & growing with you

Homestayers found that their core needs of health, security, and wellness were tended to — allowing for greater levels of happiness, fulfillment, and self-actualization.

A sense of belonging was a key player.

PSYCHOLOGY OF BELONGING

circle.house began to grow and adapt at the pace of and in unison with the fascinating, neuroplastic human mind.

NEUROPLASTIC ARCHITECTURE

Lastly, circle.house expanded beyond human models and looked to nature as keystone inspiration for ever-sustainable and ever-flourishing communities.

Biomimicry / Biology-Inspired Architecture
Special thanks to Joel Simon's 😍 work on evolving floorpans that generated the floor plan of the background illustration. Other image attributions to the photos used on this site are available here.