Mobile Living: The Unicat
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01.16.08
There is great appeal to the idea living in efficient small spaces and to not being tied down to real estate; that is why we like the minihome or the portabach or container housing. But just as there is as Mercedes can make a Smart Car and a Maybach, there can be a range in mobile living from the light and green to the extreme. This may well be the Hummer of mobile living, the Unicat.
This baby is built on a Mercedes Unimog chassis, monster trucks designed for offroad use and for military vehicles. (it was the chassis for the living.be)
Get to your destination and pop up the roof:
and make yourself at home.
I love the integration of the electronics into the spiral stair.
The kitchen is nicer in the Minihome but this isn't bad.
The bath is tiny and boat/rv style with the whole room being the shower, but it has the luxury of a heated towel bar.
It is nice in blue too, but it is not very green, it is the hummer of mobile living. However there are lots of interesting ideas for living in small space. ::Unicat via ::Snopes See also the Terracross
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