Michelle Kaufmann
American architect and designer
Michelle Kaufmann is an American architect and designer known for her work in sustainable architecture, prefabricated housing and research into new building systems. She founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs, where her projects included the Glidehouse, MKLotus and MKSolaire. She later worked with Google X on research into architecture and construction and co-founded the technology company Flux.
Kaufmann later joined Google, where she has led research and development for built environments, including works connected with company Bay View campus and research into adaptable, loe-carbon mass timber buildings.
Career
Michelle Kaufmann's first project, titled Glidehouse, was designed by Kaufmann and her husband, Kevin Cullen, in 2004. A full-size replica of this home was built for the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. from May 2006 through June 2007 as a part of the exhibit The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design. The style is influenced by "Japanese homes, along with Eichler and Eames, as well as the rural farm buildings from" her "childhood in Iowa".
The first MKLotus designed by Michelle Kaufmann was built in front of San Francisco's City Hall in 2007 as a part of West Coast Green conference on sustainable building. This design is among the smallest of the open-space homes offered by MK designs. It includes a "front wrap-around deck and enclosed meditation garden" and is "Intended as a vacation or small stand-alone home".
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