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The Future Of High-tech Housing

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: ArchnewsNow
7 May 2003 - 2:00pm

Popular Science Magazine features a Swedish housing complex that is ecologically sound and wired.

"Tango, a green-and-wired 27-unit complex that decontaminates its own soil, recycles its water into a rebuilt marsh ecology, generates power from renewable sources, uses roof space to put oxygen back into the environment and, through sensors and broadband Web access, allows owners to re-motely monitor and control everything from energy use to electronic key access."

Full Story: It Takes Tech To Tango
Source: Popular Science, May 15, 2003
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