The Radiant Hydronic House is based on feeding back various building systems into one another in order to produce emergent effects, both quantitative and qualitative. The house is structured by a set of flexible bands which take on various gradients of behavior-- structural, mechanical, circulatory-- depending on various local requirements but also based on the behavior of adjacent bands.

A central spine, cascading down from the roof, connects the various infrastructures into a monocaulk structure. Ductwork in this spine opportunistically twists up to become structural supports in key locations, and then twists flat to become a ramp or bridge. While each building system performs, it does so only in relation, and in a state of biological epistasis (ie. no one system is optimized but all systems are optimized in relation). This spine contains a reversible hydronic AC system which, in winter, transports liquids from solar pools down to a radiant slab inside the house. On summer evenings, this system also transports cool westerly winds down into a subfloor plenum to chill the thermal mass of the house for the following day.

The project is an interface connecting multiple disciplines; it is not just a design object but possibly a trace of a new way of practicing architecture.