Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Andrew Maynard's Corb v2.0 - Rethinking Housing


OE Tech has already shown you photos of how dumpsters can be turned into eco friendly pools, but today we suggest that storage containers would make great apartments/dorm room singles. Andrew Maynard's design for container living pushes the boundaries living and apartment pricing. Imagine coming home from work and your apartment just moved from the 1st floor to the 5th floor. It is an interesting idea

"It is everything Archigram was forty years ago; an exciting, original revisit of how we treat where we live, how we define real estate. Imagine moving our houses around according to our activities, our whims, our friends, our crying babies. Imagine everyone being the penthouse and the next day being on the ground floor..."

The "Party Configuration," shown below, is by far the best configuration. To live on the waterfront, and have a possible backyard to party on, I would live there, especially as a recently graduated college student. I really like the party configuration, but I'm not okay with having a crane move my apartment, possibly with me in it.








Source: [TreeHugger]

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