Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has collaborated with clothes model Vollebak to design a completely self-sufficient, off-grid island dwelling in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Deliberate for an island inside Jeddore Harbour, the home is designed to exemplify the clothes model’s beliefs and Ingels’ studio BIG’s “philosophy of hedonistic sustainability”.

“Vollebak is utilizing know-how and materials innovation to create garments which can be as sustainable and resilient as they’re lovely,” stated Ingels.

“In different phrases, the style equal of BIG’s architectural philosophy of hedonistic sustainability. For Vollebak Island, we’ve got imagined the rooms as a artifical mount of particular person volumes rising out of the bottom and a separate outpost on the fringe of the breaking waves.”

“We needed to deliver their concept of ‘hedonistic sustainability’ all the way down to the dimensions of a single household dwelling,” added Vollebak co-founder Steve Tidball.

Ingels and Vollebak designed the home for Chief Island, which has been rebranded Vollebak Island. The group envisions the island as a sustainable retreat that might supply a “highly effective imaginative and prescient of how we’d reside on Earth in a self-sustaining approach”.

The island, together with Ingels’ designs which have full permissions to be constructed, is about to be auctioned subsequent week by Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions.

On the centre of the island would be the 597-square-metre dwelling named Earth Home, which consists of 9 interconnected buildings organized round a central courtyard.

The dwelling block can be made totally from thatch, whereas the 4 bedrooms can be product of fire-retardant hempcrete. A boathouse can be insulated with seaweed and a star-gazing room can be constructed from polished concrete.

Additionally related to the house can be a greenhouse made totally of glass brick and used to develop meals for the island’s residents, and a Japanese-style bathhouse containing tubs minimize from the island’s bedrock.

“We have constructed clothes with all the pieces from copper and algae to ceramics, minerals and graphene,” Tidball instructed Dezeen.

“However in clothes, there’s a sensible restrict as all the pieces you design has to work proper subsequent to a human physique that is at all times shifting. So once you transfer into structure extra prospects open up,” he continued.

“On this venture, we’re taking a look at supplies which can be each cutting-edge and historic – from bedrock and thatch to seaweed and hempcrete. There is a shared perception between Vollebak and BIG within the energy of utilizing revolutionary supplies to resolve a number of the greatest challenges.”

Alongside the principle residence, the group has designed an eight-metre-high, triangular visitor home on the island’s japanese shore. Named Wooden Home, the two-bedroom dwelling can be constructed from wooden felled on the island.

The homes on the island can be powered by a mix of geothermal vitality, offshore wind and solar energy, whereas the residents would develop all their very own meals. Tidball hopes that the island can be bought by somebody who needs to embrace a self-sufficient life-style.

“Vollebak Island is designed to be a unprecedented man-made ecosystem the place all the pieces you want for all times is on the island,” he defined.

“So we count on Vollebak Island to be purchased and constructed by somebody who shares the imaginative and prescient we have created – somebody who can be excited to see all their vitality being generated in full view by the solar, earth, wind and floor round them, and who wish to see their crops rising of their greenhouse and on the planted roofs of all of the buildings,” he continued.

“On the identical time, it’s also a proof of idea for BIG’s plan for the planet.”

Tidball additionally hopes that components from the venture might be tailored and utilized to different schemes world wide.

“There are three areas that we expect Vollebak Island actually explores in an attention-grabbing approach that may be helpful for different future-facing initiatives world wide,” he defined.

“The primary concept is that we’re designing a household dwelling that works totally in concord with nature – rising all its personal meals on the island, and utilizing the ocean, wind, and earth round it to generate all of the vitality the island will want,” he continued. “So interested by a small piece of land as its personal whole ecosystem forces you to design in attention-grabbing methods.”

“The second is designing an off-grid dwelling on an island in Nova Scotia the place the climate may be very changeable, and you’ll have 4 seasons in a day. Whenever you’re not assured wall-to-wall sunshine you possibly can’t ask photo voltaic to do all of the work,” Tidball added.

“The third is how we’re taking a look at in situ utilisation and utilizing the plentiful wooden, rock and seaweed on the island to assist create the buildings and buildings of the home.”

Based in 2015 by Steve Tidball and his twin brother Nick, Vollebak designs experimental clothes. Latest launches embrace a near-indestructible jacket made out of Dyneema – a fibre that’s 15 occasions stronger than metal and a coat from graphene that acts as a radiator.

The visuals are courtesy of BIG and Vollebak.