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The Micro Compact Home

Jennifer Chait — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:04:48 +0000

The micro compact home [m-ch], is a super small, super compact house.

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

I had this weird dream…

Jennifer Chait — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:03:20 +0000

In the dream, I was dating some famous person (not going there), but the dream took place in Florida (I’ve never been) and the kooky part was that a bunch of people, including me, were visiting this museum of tiny Pennsylvania. It was just this oddball museum, where you’d walk through the halls looking at tiny versions of all the parts of Pennsylvania. In the dream, everyone was very impressed. It was really strange.

Long story short, it got me thinking about this link my friend Marye sent me – Tiny Texas Houses.

These tiny houses are made from 95% recycled vintage materials, but the electric, plumbing, and insulation is new. This is a perfect way to reuse, semi-used resources. Plus the houses are totally cute, and leave a small footprint.

There are all types of tiny houses to see, from rustic to antique and more. Visit Tiny Texas Houses to see all the adorable little homes.

[images via Tiny Texas Houses]

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The Smallest (Real) Home on the Planet

Jennifer Chait — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:12:40 +0000

I can’t 100% guarantee the title (you know those kooky home builders) but I’m pretty sure this is the smallest home I’ve ever seen. So small in fact, that one can push it around the city, or the forest, on a hill, in a national park. Of course, this may be the only home you can lose if it happens to roll off. You can’t say that about any old house now can you.

N55 the creative minds behind the snail shell system note that this system, “Can easily be placed in a discreet way. It can be buried in the ground, exposing only the entrance. It can also function as a comfortable space inside existing buildings.” There’s quite a lot more to this structure which you can read about at the N55 website.

It is so a house! Look, it offers rest…

A shower and kitchen.

From the website; “The bilge pump (on the left) can be used as a vacuum cleaner as well as for pumping water. Combined with hoses and a flexible tank, it works as a shower… The box (on the right) contains a torch, hoses for the pump, kitchen pan, kettle and alcohol burner, foldable water containers that can be used for ballasting as well as for shower and drinking water, and plastic bags.”

Toilet

I didn’t say glamorous toilet.

One of N55’s work in progress living spaces, you won’t even have to push… it’ll just walk along side of you.

The Walking House

N55 has created so many interesting items — all related to space, how we use space, and living. They have inflatable, floating, and other innovative homes. I recommend setting aside an hour or so and cruising through all of their manuals. It’s well worth the time.

What could you use this for? Camping, living as a wanderer, in the old days maybe a Dead show or two.

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The Smallest (Real) Home on the Planet