Beko Home Appliances has announced a slew of eco-conscious initiatives in advance of earth day, the most prominent the brand’s inclusion in one of the world’s healthiest and most sustainable homes.
Designed by Vaishali Makim of Makim Architecture, this 4,500-square foot home in Santa Monica California is being built for gaming and tech icon, Michael Wann as a net-zero carbon home. Currently chief strategy officer for Super League Gaming and instrumental in the growth of Tastemade, Fullscreen and Mobcrush, Wann is building a two-level home near Santa Monica College as both a personal residence and a public example of the possibilities of healthy, sustainable home and kitchen design.
Architectural rendering of Michael Wann’s 4,500-sq.-ft. net-zero carbon home in Santa Monica, Calif.
“For years, our dream has been to build a home that reflects our love for a healthy, balanced day-to-day life and fully sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle,” Wann said. “The result will be an attainable net-zero-carbon showplace of accessible healthy, earth-friendly living – and a tangible example for others wanting to make a real difference in their own health and the health of the planet without sacrificing lifestyle goals.”
The home will feature two of Beko’s Healthy Kitchens, including many of Beko’s recently announced kitchen and laundry appliances from KBIS 2022. The home itself will contain sweeping, light-filled open spaces, four bedrooms and four bathrooms, separate family, living, entertainment and formal dining rooms, a personal gym and climate-controlled wine and cheese room.
“To have the first tangible Beko Healthy Kitchens take shape in a home intended to serve as a best-in-class example of healthy, sustainable design represents perfectly the Beko mantra that healthy living is only truly possible on a healthy planet,” said Zach Elkin, president of Beko Home Appliances.
For Wann’s 145-square-foot downstairs chef’s kitchen and 152-square-foot upstairs open-floor-plan family kitchen, Beko is working with designers on its Beko Healthy Kitchen Council to combine appliances, cabinets, surfaces, lighting and interior aesthetics with nutrition, recipe-prep, and earth-friendly elements to create centers of health, wellness and sustainability.
Both kitchens will boast dishwashers equipped with CornerIntense® and IonGuard™, refrigerators with HarvestFresh+™, an industry-largest Beko Double-Wall Oven and range with AirFry, and washing machines outfitted with AquaTech® and RecycledTub® each made from 60 recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.
The home will also feature the world’s first rooftop installation of a SmartFlower® solar system that combines integrated sculptural design, advanced robotics and automation to track the sun throughout the day to produce 40% more energy than traditional solar panels. Wann started construction in May 2021 on the former site of his family’s vegetable garden and expects move-in by January 2023.
