Via Scientific American
Zak Stone
The JF-Kit House takes a little extra work to live in, but it will be worth it when you hit the beach this summer.
A home gym is considered a luxury. But when your home is a gym, powered through exercise, what was once a luxury is transformed into necessity.
The JF-Kit House by the Spanish design firm Elii is an experiment in "domestic fitness," rendering "the image of a possible future where citizens produce part of their domestic energy requirements with their own physical activities." Each room features a fancifully named exercise station that would, theoretically, help create energy to power the home, including an "arm workout bureau," a "spinning kitchen," and a "triceps greenhouse." A video shows the home's imagined inhabitant lifting weights, cycling, and doing calisthenics as part of his house's everyday upkeep and daily chores like cooking.
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Byline: An extreme sustainability home that uses your own energy for power