"I've had a long-time fascination with shelter systems. Specifically, I like to try and figure out ways to help people live happier, safer, warmer, more comfortable lives, and at higher standards than they are used to. Towards this end, I'm designing what is called an autonomous house."

"An autonomous house is a shelter system that provides for all of its occupants' needs, while remaining independent of many of the umbilical cords that are commonly connected to homes. By these, I mean electrical lines, phone lines, water lines, sewer lines, and roads. These things root a house down to one place, and when one of the systems fails (such as a tree falling on a power line someplace), the occupants suffer, because their shelter is dependent on those umbilicals."

"I'm designing and integrating systems that will allow a house to be free of these outside dependencies. Even, ultimately, to be moved around at the whim of the owners, very much like the freedom that boat and mobile home owners currently enjoy."

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