Posted on 01/27/2015 10:30:56 AM PST by gorush
Those on a quest to rethink small-space living build tiny houses, install pop-up rentals on vacant lots, and design portable 10-square-foot microkitchens tucked inside armoires. Presented over the weekend at Toronto’s Interior Design Show, Cubitat is a 10-by-10-by-10-foot cube that houses a kitchen, bathroom, bed, laundry, and storage.
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I could envision building an attractive shell on a mountain side and have this dropped in by helicopter and roofed over. There are a lot of cynics around here. :{)
Would need 100 x100 space to make it livable. Would reduce installation costs, though.
I figured 27’ x 37’ would do it almost comfortably.
This is good, but it needs to be much smaller and manufactured from recycled organic matter.
We can get the masses of people into these, while Al Gore and the elite fly jets and live in multiple luxury mega-mansions.
I recently moved to a new home and was surprised with just how many of my personal items I really didn't need. I ended up just taking about 40% of what I had and even that was way more than I needed.
When it comes down to it, all I really need outside of a functioning kitchen and bathroom is an easy chair, a laptop, a tablet, a phone device and a flat screen. With an internet connection, I'll have all the books, music and movies I'll ever need.
Maybe 3 or 4 good business suits and some casual clothing. I could actually live quite comfortably in a space like this.
However, I'm married, so multiply the above by 10 and give me 2,500 square feet.
“Where are you Johnson?....takin’ a sh*t in your chimney?”
- FLW
It's kind of funny, going from one extreme to another. It wasn't that long ago when the "normal" house was a two-story McMansion with a double or even triple garage. I don't know which is more bizarre...a McMansion or a 10' x 10' housing cube.
You’d need around 1000’ sq. ft. total to extend the bed, add a kitchen table and have corridors.
What a lovely site!
Beautiful rolling hills.
It’s not a house or dwelling. It’s a huge furniture construct. In fact, most of it could be assembled from commercial office furniture catalogues, less plumbing and kitchen fixtures.
In fact, it bears an uncanny resemblance to Herman Miller contract open office modules right down to the color scheme.
It’s the type of thought exercise done by unemployed snowflakes with BArch or MArch degrees. Used to see their resumes. It’s what they do until their folks talk their friends into giving them summer home design commissions.
Same isolated ivory tower world view that several decades ago resulted in a west coast design competition in aid of the homeless. The competition committee had pondered over the issues, interviewed street people and made videos before deciding the true problem was the grocery cart’s inherent inefficiency in dealing with the daily problems of the homeless.
Solution:
A design competition to create the perfect grocery cart substitute, free of the stigma of theft, and celebrating in a fashion the homeless lifestyle choice.. Today I realize that Celine Deion would jump at the chance to be a celebrity sponsor. Back the I laughed myself silly.
When you have to pull up a table to eat and pull out the bed to sleep, the 10x10 cube fails.
Yeah, more of a rectangle, to space the couch away from the t.v., and room for a dining table.
Hallways are a pet peeve. Expensive waste of space. First thing I did when we remodeled was knock out two halls. It not only opened up sightlines but gave us a larger dining area, a game room and space to turn a dinky bathroom into a master bath.
Many thanks! Too young to have seen them in their glory days, too old to listen to the crap on the radio nowadays. LOL.
Now THAT is something I’d like to check out! I’ll bet it’s warm in winter and cool in summer.
My only peeve with earth houses is light coming from only one direction. I have that with the apartment I’m in and I love a lot of natural light. Otherwise, I love everything about it.
Classy
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