Home Delivery: The Micro Compact Home Comes To America
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 07.10.08
Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee Architects, one of the designers of the Micro Compact home, has it easy compared to the others; at 2.6 meters square (8'-8") it was designed to go down any road, and he could just ship the unit to New York.
"At a mere 76 square feet, this perfect cubic form packs a remarkable amount of muscle into its tiny envelope. The project is intended as a modern "machine for living," providing functioning spaces of sleeping, working/dining, cooking and hygiene for one or two people. Taking inspiration from the aerospace and automobile industries, the architects fashion a "high performance" cocoon primarily geared toward single persons with a mobile work or leisure-oriented lifestyle."
TreeHugger readers have been looking at the Micro-Compact home for a number of years:
Micro - Compact House
After Two Months in the Micro - Compact Home
Microcompact House: Smaller than Paris Hilton's Jail Cell :
Time Magazine on Shrinking Down the House
Also in the Home Delivery Exhibition:
System3 House Installed at MoMA Home Delivery Exhibition
Home Delivery : BURST*008 : TreeHugger
Home Delivery : Digitally Fabricated Housing : TreeHugger
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