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June 2007
Treehugger reported on a BBC story about the micro compact home we've mentioned a couple times before. The BBC report includes a video, and some insight into the home's design: "It's a very tranquil place but at the same time it's a bit of an adventure - there's always something to slide out or under, pull down, tuck away, generally fiddle with, if only out of the need for space. To live here you have to be ordered: to do one thing, you have to finish another first and put it away. And that may be my and other compact-livers' downfall." The Maison Tropicale sale made a couple more headlines. An AP story about the sale showed up on quite a few sites, like ABC Money UK: "Its last owner, Eric Touchaleaume, a French antiques dealer, has said he plans to use the sale proceeds to finance a Prouve museum that will travel inside another Maison Tropicale."NY Arts Magazine explained the original use for the prefab homes: "Prouve's aluminum and steel home was designed for French colonists living in Brazzaville, now the capital of the Republic of the Congo." Future House Now likes A Prefab Project as much as I do, especially the site's detailed budget page: "It's been recently updated, and gives a lot of detail, the kind of detail you don't get from glossy magazine articles." Apartment Therapy eyes V2world's V2flat: "They say it has no geographic limitations. So, we say set it up for semi-outdoor summer living anywhere." |