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MoMA's Home Delivery show opens a week from tomorrow so it's been getting a lot of attention around the web. The New York Times added a little article blurb to the slideshow they posted the other day:
Lloyd Alter of Treehugger wrote a series of posts on the exhibition:
HAUTE*NATURE took a green perspective. We'll let Inhabitat's Prefab Friday have the last word:
WIRED published an annotated slideshow of small prefabs last week: The world is getting hotter and more crowded every day, and modular, prefab housing is just what the doctor ordered. When you go small, it's not just about energy efficiency and carbon footprints -- it's also about being strange, cool and beautiful. We've chosen our favorite houses that meld style with globally conscious living. Enjoy. Models included: Treehugger summarized: Some are real and some are vaporware; all have been around the block a few times. And of course, the comments include "why are these so expensive?" author: Rob Beschizza
publication: WIRED
length: 12 slides
The m-ch (micro compact home) will also be included in the upcoming MoMA prefab exhibition. The New York Times says: Mr. Horden’s Micro Compact House — Mr. Bergdoll [of MoMA] described it as “a giant livable Sony radio cube” — is topped with photovoltaic panels and has wind turbines in its walls, allowing the house to generate its own electricity. An aluminum-clad perfect cube, with about 76 square feet of living space, the tiny dwelling is intended for use as athletic or student housing, or as a miniature vacation house. Mr. Bergdoll met with Mr. Horden in one of his cubes, a space so compact that the architect managed to make espresso on the kitchen counter without leaving his seat at the dining table. From the micro compact home site: The micro compact home [m-ch] is a lightweight compact dwelling for one or two people. Its compact dimensions of 2.6m [8.5 ft] cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances, and its functioning spaces of sleeping, working / dining, cooking and hygiene make it suitable for everyday use. The specifics: The m-ch has a timber frame structure with anodised aluminium external cladding, insulated with polyurethane and fitted with aluminium frame double glazed windows and front door with security double lock; graphics can be applied for sponsors, exhibition and business use. More images of the interior: We've mentioned the home before in our This Week series. Back in June, we also linked to a video of the m-ch. style: modern
size: 74 sf
price: EUR 25,000 - 34,000 (~$37,000-$50,000; $500-$675/sf)
bedrooms: 1
bathrooms: 1
how: complete modules
Inhabitat's Prefab Friday showed off a cool village of micro compact homes: "We often get comments about how difficult it would be to live in some of the Prefab Friday homes that we have featured, and none have received more criticism than the Micro Compact Home (m-ch)...But the proof is in the pudding, and in 2006, the Technical University of Munich in Germany installed a small village of seven of these homes for six students and a professor to live in for a full year." The WIRED LivingHome buzz has made its way to Australian blog GreenFoot: "It's the sort of house that both myself and my husband would love - me the green aspects and him the techy-gadgets. Although we wouldn't need as much room or as many bathrooms.
The Good Human's Prefab Wednesday covered the iT House from Taalman Koch:
The Wired Home is described as a modernist home in an exclusive enclave of Los Angeles that allows luxury and the environment to live together in harmony. Sounds pretty cool huh?" "...it sure is a gorgeous example of what can be done with metal and glass." Home by Sunset is a fan of Michelle Kaufmann's mkLotus: "Now she's designed a prefab that's as green as possible. I think it's terrific. Note the sod roof, the way accordion doors open entire walls to expand the living space, the sunshades, and the photovoltaic panels."The post also confirms that the house will be showcased outside San Francisco City Hall during the West Coast Green building conference. |