EQ House

House with Artificial Intelligence This is an experimental house for future life and its goal is to become life-like architecture to which an owner is attached. In order to shape this concept, EQ house is connected to environmental status and the owner’s feedback. A wide variety of appliances in the house are connected by means of MQTT protocol so that its network can control all of them at the same time. Then, its artificial intelligence engine generates variable status integrated with natural environment to acquire as much owner’s feedback of “like” through a smart watch as possible. In the end, the house can learn the owner’s taste so as to provide the owner’s favorable environment as if it were alive. A house shape includes tube-like rooms: one is called “living tube” and the other is “mobility tube.” These two rooms meet and cross each other, being installed with Glass User Interface at the intersection and it shows and the information of the environmental status. These rooms are covered with switchable glasses which change their transparency according to its illuminance as well as the owner’s position to protect him or her from direct sunlight. To be connected to natural environment, its façade consists of perforated aluminum panels so that sunlight and wind can come into the room. The pattern is designed to create light effect imitating sunlight through leaves. The randomness of the pattern is generated through an optimization process among three factors: the pattern’s edge length, amount of useful daylight illuminance and amount of direct sunlight. Each of these factors represents time/cost efficiency, light environment comfortability and energy consumption efficiency.