Welcome to Oikos Avrio - The Home as the Center
The home of future must provide more for the people using it. The concept of the home of the future must complete social needs, reduce energy consumption, and adjust to people’s changing lifestyles. The home of the future will have the ability to adapt, and its architecture will have the ability to respond to the evolving ecology, environment, and to the changing needs of the inhabitants within. Thus, the home of the future must perform like a core: the core as a center for social and family origin, as a mass that responds to the sun, wind, and light, and as the base center that can expand and contract into appropriate spaces. Therefore the home as the center and the future:

• Completes social needs
• Is flexible in the design
• Has economical gain
• Gives more free time to be with family and friends
• Sustainable with technical solutions
• Has a clean design, that makes you feel good
• Is adjustable to changing lifestyle over years

Benefits
Flexibility, Adaptability, Family community, Privacy, Ecological exposure and education, Local food, Economical and sustainable architecture re-use, Prefabricated off-site construction, Self-sustainability

Winner of the Green Intelligent Building Award 2011 (Taiwan)

The constructional principles for Oikos Avrio are simple. All components are prefabricated and mounted at the factory, where the electricity is preinstalled in the walls. This also counts for the water pipes and electricity that are running under the floor and in the ceiling. The LED lighting is preinstalled from factory and is spread delightful on the ceiling. Each lamp can be regulated according to the need, especially in the kitchen. The wall cladding is made in recycling materials. Oikos Avrio is made so all component can be recycled like the theories behind ‘cradle to cradle’. And therefore, parts of the house can be sold, exported, and appropriated by another user without any major construction renovations or moving out of the house. The designers of housing in the future must recognize and design for flexibility and evolution in one’s lifetime.

The home uses zero energy, because it produces it own energy, it is self sufficient and the family living there, will not get any bills.

• Energy - By photovoltaic that converts light directly into electricity.
• Water - Rainwater used for watering the garden and save water solutions, which means that the water from the bath is reused for flushing the toilet and for the dishwasher in the kitchen.
• Heating - Only by underfloor heating in all rooms.
• Ventilation - By natural ventilation but in the bathroom and kitchen mechanical ventilation.