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Earth House Community
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Earth House
University/SchoolMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Lead ArchitectCheng-Hsin Chan
Design TeamZhi Ray Wang
Project Videohttps://youtube.com/shorts/OhfS9pGCI_8?feature=share
Earth House reimagines housing through soil printing, environmental analytics, and microclimate design. Using CFD simulations, clay prototypes, and full-scale units, the project demonstrates that geometry and mass can regulate comfort in mechanical systems. Printable modules combine the soil’s thermal inertia with engineered cavities for insulationadaptable to site and resident needs. Applied from desert housing to fire recovery, Earth House is a low-carbon, rapidly deployable toolkit for resilient communities, framing climate adaptation as both technical performance and cultural imagination.