Micro Dwellings: Movable Housing Modules
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12.18.05
You can party like it's 1969 in this proposal for modular housing that only Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin could love. A series of truncated octahedrons act as living, sleeping and other uses indiscreetly described by the designers, and can be fitted together many different ways. And, this roof won't leak- they can be placed underwater. " The MICRO DWELLINGS are able to reflect changes in life, e.g. people moving in and out, the arrival of children, etc, as it is easy to add to the construction in stages. If people want to live together they can simply let their dwellings grow together, likewise, it is easy to separate modules and move them if desirable."
Developed by Danish Artists/activists N5, who also created the perfect way to get home to your module: the rocket-equipped bicycle.
::Manual for Micro Dwellings via ::WMMNA
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Be intersting to see if these ever actually come to pass and if may people try making homes out of them. They don't really look very confortable, though.
This guy has some good ideas however I'm not too sure about his "protest rocket" spreading "superweeds" into the enviroment dosen't sound too treehugger.
I like the idea from Lego country, but only somebody actually living in one of these constructions is probably qualified to comment.
This looks a lot like a cross between Ken Isaacs microhouse from his book, "How to Build Your Own Living Structures" and "Paper Houses" by Roger Sheppard.
Its amazing just how close this concept and design is to the microhouse, right down to the modular concept and tripod style legs.
As both the books are nearly impossible to find, the only reference I could find online is from Eric Hutings blog "shelter", specifically his article
Third World Ingenuity and the Legacy of the Urban Nomads
Both of these came out in 1974 and contain some realling interesting ideas.
Ken Isaacs was promoting a construction system called boxbeam. It was a kind of building system based on wood beams with holes drilled at regular ntervals. One could reuse the components in other projects. He had ideas ranging from vehicles to furniture to houses
Roger Sheppard has much on the geometric shapes and using paper/cardboard as a contstuction material. Many of his concepts could be built with scraps
Both had a concept of a modular system that you could build on as needed. The idea was kind of a seed dwelling that had the potential to grow into something quite grand using readily available materials.
It also calls to mind a land based version of the "Suspended Spherical Tree Houses" from treehugger on june 6.