Kim Dupont-Madinier on top of Techstyle Haus under construction at the Domaine de Boisbuchet. 2014

 
 

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Kim Dupont-Madinier is a French-American entrepreneur, design engineer, and architect. A harbinger for design, Kim develops innovative building technologies to accelerate our generation into a sustainable 21st century.

Kim’s first public project as a high-tech architect began at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with Techstyle Haus. Techstyle Haus is the world’s first prefabricated Passive textile home, an innovative and pragmatic solution built in response to standardized and poorly constructed buildings which imbued rural and suburban environments in the US and France. The first build allowed her to pursue a second public project as Fulbright Research Scholar in Mongolia, mitigating an air pollution crisis in one of the most polluted capitals in world, Ulaanbaatar. There she adapted Techstyle Haus’s building technology to the Mongolian Ger, also known in the West as a Yurt, creating her second autonomous home, the Passive Ger. Realizing the economic value of industrialized technologies and mass-produced goods, she returned to the US to lead Saint-Gobain’s U.S. off-site construction initiative as the Lead Design Engineer from 2018-2021.

Her early success led her to expand her practice to her own laboratory for design, Atelier Dupont-Madinier, to radically decarbonize the building industry with a next generation building technology. The lab worked at the intersection of new advances in art, advanced materials, and industrial technologies to create one-of-a kind autonomous homes.