Micro-Chic: The 76-Square-Foot House
A designer in Munich has debuted what may be the smallest all-inclusive homes in the world. At just 76 square feet, the tiny cubes come complete with two double beds, table seating for five, a kitchen, storage space, a toilet, and a shower.
"This isn't just a dressed-up shack; the m-ch is the BMW of small homes. For $96,000 a cube (including delivery and installation anywhere in Europe), owners get a fully integrated interior teched out with everything from a flatscreen TV to a dining room table that seats five. In the future, solar panels and a roof-mounted horizontal-axis wind turbine generating 2,200 kilowatts of power a year will make m-ch models self-sustaining."
"Since late 2005, students and staff from the Technical University of Munich, where the homes were designed, have lived in the first mini-home hamlet of seven m-chs, and a 16-unit village is being developed for a site near Vienna, Austria. 'There's no reason to have all that space anymore,' says Gregory Paul Johnson, director of the Small House Society, an Iowa-based advocacy group."
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Ah, it all makes more sense now: the Wired article clarifies that these are for short stays. I know that TripAdvisor raters always moan about how tiny their hotel rooms are, but I'm always wondering what I could possibly do in one night that would require 400 sq. ft. of space -- or, more importantly, how much I'd have to pack, unpack, and repack to use all that space.
Dymaxion, where art thou?
Clever, in a Transformers sort of way, but totally impractical for families and for couples not permanently on tranquilizer drips. Not really much of an advance in autonomous building design, considering Fuller's Dymaxion House was shown to practical, lo, more than 60 years ago...
http://www.aluminum.org/ANTemplate.cfm?IssueDate=09/01/2001&Template=/Co...