Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we’ll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month’s location? A round, net-zero prefab home engineered to survive the strongest storms.
The past several months brought intense hurricanes with record-setting wind speeds to the US Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, badly damaging multiple communities. More than 200 people have died in this recent batch of hurricanes, and technically, the season doesn’t end until November 30th.
Many families have been faced with the decision to…