A design team called Ark Space will tonight unveil Sydney’s first high-tech environmental display home featuring smart wireless switching and audio visual technology in an environmentally-sustainable design.

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Designed by Pierre Della-Putta at Architects Ink in Sydney, the home is decked-out in Control4 wireless gear that commands the house’s lighting, security, air-conditioning, music and home theatre – programming them to activate when needed and turn off when not.

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Tonight’s showcase, at Ark Space Display House in Sydney’s St Peters, will be a “showcase of sustainable living and energy saving technology of the future,” according to Ark Space.

Attending will be Control4’s US-based international sales director.

Ark Space’s philosophy is to perform the majority of construction work in a factory-controlled environment with completed modules or panels transported to the site and craned into position when ready. On-site work is minimal and restricted to essential finishing trades and utility connection work.

Ark Space claims to reduce the labour component of construction (typically the most expensive component of a building’s cost) by using systems more typically used in car manufacture than traditional building construction.

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