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JSA, Karen Van Lengen, and Ben Rubin teamed up as one of twelve groups commissioned by the Vitra Design Museum to create works that reimagined the use of media technology in the home for the exhibition “Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living.”The resulting speculative project, Mix House, expands the modernist notion of visual transparency afforded by the ubiquitous picture window to include acoustic transparency as well. Situated on a generic suburban plot, the dwelling is composed of two sound-gathering volumes outfitted with three audiovisual windows. The curved profile of each of these sonic windows is composed of two elements: a louvered glass window wall that regulates the sound of the air-borne ambient environment, and a parabolic dish that electronically targets domestic sounds and transmits them to an interior audio system controlled from the kitchen island. Fromthis sound command center of the house, occupants are free to design original domestic soundscapes by mixing media sponsored sounds with the ambient noises of the neighborhood.
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