Oh baby. I love this. Talk about downsizing. You know me...I like small efficient things...like my great SMART car (which by the way, for all the nay-sayers who told me it wouldn't fair well in the winter...wrong...been just fine).
Well, I came across this site for something called the Micro Compact Home. Wow. This is so great. What is it?
The micro compact home [m-ch] is a lightweight compact dwelling for one or two people. Its compact dimensions of 2.6m cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances, and its functioning spaces of sleeping, working / dining, cooking and hygiene make it suitable for everyday use.
Informed by aviation and automotive design and manufactured at the micro compact home production centre in Austria, the m-ch can be delivered throughout Europe with project individual graphics and interior finishes.
The product was first launched in Munich in November 2005 with the development of a case study village sponsored by O2 Germany, which is currently occupied by students of TU Munich. The m-ch will make its UK debut at the Grand Designs Live 2006 exhibition, London Docklands, in June 2006.
Love that they have a SMART car parked next to the compact house. That aside, why do I like it? Because I think we are a society of excess and I'm always looking for innovations and technologies that can help us move back to living smaller - comfortable, but smaller. For the sake of the environment I don't think we have a choice. That is why something like the Micro Compact Home is so interesting an idea to me.
Of course, this isn't something for me now. It is for one or two people, not a family of four. But what about in 10 or 15 years time? When the kids move away? We talk about downsizing - well, this would be an exercise in extreme downsizing. Doesn't seem to be available here yet, but in time, I would suspect we'll see this here.
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