Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.
If DIY, salvaged material made, moss-covered Hobbit holes aren’t your thing, the VIPP Shelter might just be. VIPP is a Danish product design company best known for a pedal operated trash can (trust me, you’ve seen it). In their shelter.
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Around the world, cities are feeling increasingly pinched for space, resulting in major housing shortages. A project out of Amsterdam has a solution–well, a temporary one at least. Conceived by real estate developer Heijmans, Heijmans ONE is a dwelling that can.
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In the quest to provide much needed affordable housing to London, architecture firm Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners, in conjunction with YMCA London South West, has designed the Y:Cube. The simple 26 sq meter (279 sq ft) house is, according to the.
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There have been many variations on the theme of converting shipping containers into homes, but few are as elegant or practical as this one by Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society. The just completed building contains 12 studio units, sized from 280-290 sq ft,.
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If you’re a high-density housing fanatic, the best direction to build is up. The logic follows that if you build up, you fit more people into less land area, resulting is less commuting, greater efficiency for things like power delivery.
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Okay, maybe “t” is the more accurate letter, but any way you look at it, these tiny housing modules show an interesting, prefabricated, highly-scaleable housing solution. We use the term “solution” as their current incarnation might be a tough places.
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The idea of beautifully designed, high-density prefabricated compact housing is hardly new. Case in point is Habitat 67. The housing complex, built for the 1967 Expo 67 World’s Fair in Montreal, is a case study in great compact design. Amazingly, the building.
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Last week, we showed a family living an edited rural life, showing that densely-packed, tiny-apartmented cities aren’t the only environments that support pared-down living. We ran across another version of this way of life that is neither urban, suburban, rural.
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Let’s face it, it’s hard to get away from IKEA. The big blue store is by far the world’s largest furniture retailer and there are few homes that escape its cleanly-design, wallet-friendly wares. Since the contents of our homes are.
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Defying the common portrayal of trailer homes as shoddily constructed, I-hope-I-never-have-to-live-in-one-of-those kinda homes, San Francisco-based architect Christopher C Deam created the Breckenridge Perfect Cottage–a 400 sq ft home that looks like no trailer home we’ve ever seen. With floor-ceiling windows.
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