MiniBox by Holzbox
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04.11.08
It is a Minibox, designed by Enrich Strolz of Holzbox in 1998, all of sixty square feet. According to Detail, it was designed as a response to the challenge of designing a minimal dwelling.
"The architects proposed a transportable cubic house 2.6 x 2.6 x 2.6 m in size. The MiniBox can sleep three and contains sitting/dining space for four people, including a table with an integrated stove. A shower and a pull-out camping WC can be installed in the closet spaces. The timber construction system clad with formwork sheets can be assembled in a very short time. Internally, the fold-up table and benches provide great flexibility. A top light over the edge of the roof and a large window ensure good lighting conditions internally and broad views of the surroundings. The boxes would be suitable for use in disaster areas. A proposal to erect them about the city for homeless people was not implemented."
PDF from Holzbox here; via ::Materialicious, who thankfully is back in business.
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There would be a huge market for this here in the U.S. Parents of adults moving back home due to hard financial times might love to put one outside their house. It isn't much smaller than a dorm room anyway.
I wonder though, what kind of materials is it made out of? how well insulated is it?
yep or for all those Hurricane Katrina victims
it seems horribly clausterphobic to me. i'm all for small spaces, but, this is a little too small. i can really only imagine it being functional as emergency housing, meant to be inhabitated for only a few days to a few weeks during the worst of a crisis.
Well, the kids would definitely be motivated to spend more time outside wouldn't they. But I'm sure most people would fit theirs with a 2.6mx2.6m lcd flat screen tv, sad isn't it?