One or two people can live in one of these homes; it’s obviously not really an appropriate large family home. This project of micro homes was first launched in Munich back in November 2005. It started as a case study village sponsored by O2 Germany. Below is a shot of the O2 project (students lived there).  The micro homes were clustered in a family-like setting.

Currently this slick project can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; through October.

[images via [m-ch]]

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The Micro Compact Home

Ah beauty in a tiny package. You won’t believe how much living space is packed into this small home. It’s unbelievable.

Check it out – everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Just a great use of space; designed by Hanger Prefab (Hangar Design Group). This soothing gray color you see on the bunk walls is used throughout the entire home, which might get old you’d think, but it works really well.

To learn more visit Hanger Prefab, You can (and should) visit Materialicious to see a much larger Joshua Tree image showcase; which includes the stunning bathroom – long and narrow to fit the space, plus living space, sleek kitchen, and the beautiful master bedroom. If I were you, I’d hit this post: concrete art floors by transparent house while you’re at it. Lovely floors. Best I’ve seen in a while.
[images via Materialicious & Hanger Prefab]

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The Joshua Tree

So of course I get all obsessive (this is a slick home) and proceed to surf through tons and tons of this guy’s flickr pages – he has a lot. Why, well, I’ll get to that in a minute. In any case, I spent far too long surfing through his pictures; which are all so great. Real slices of life – not stodgy photos at all. I like reality and his photos are exactly that.

Here’s a couple more of this amazing house:

How great is this house? It’s in Michigan, which is odd because it reminds me of a house I saw in Minnesota, on one of my road trips which isn’t far off.

The fellow I mentioned above (the one with all the cool flickr pages) shot it as part of his Hometown Invasion Tour – which is pretty neat in itself. This guy, Justin (aka Bugsy) has a website called The Hometown Invasion; I think Justin sums it up better, and faster, then I would so here you go; from his homepage:

“From Sep 8, 2006 to Sep 17, 2007 my friend Rice (the first squirrel to go to all 50 states) and I (Bugsy) have traveled 29,403 miles as we made our way to all 50 states in the nation staying in over 100 U.S. households. These are the photos and stories that made an incredible year.”

Neat… I want to go on a road trip like this! Justin blogs about his adventures too. ONLY visit the blog if you have lots and lots of free time. I stayed a long time. It was really interesting. According to his blog he’s either on the road again or considering it; it was sort of hard to tell. Still, it’s a fun site, and a great read with amazing photos. Very much worth a look.

[Many hugs to Linette for the send. Jennifer of course was joking about her time being wasted - she's always got plenty of time to waste on cool houses, and adores people who send them to her]

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Teepee House & Road Trips