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Round-up of several small, sometimes portable architecture projects. I’d seen the LoftCube (the top image in this post) before, and tried but failed to find it again when I posted this.
(via OVO)
Here’s another for the list: the good old fashioned mobile home.
D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.
Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.
(via the Agitator)
Details are sparse:
This week, the American Institute of Architects announced the recipients of its Small Project Awards 2008. Winners include Abod, envisioned as a low-cost, prefabricated solution to South Africa’s housing shortage by BSB Designs.
Each home packs flat and can be assembled by four people with a screwdriver and awl (both tools are shipped with the structure). Buyers can add multiple features on to the original 10×12 foot structure, including a kitchen, bathroom, window-walls, and closets. The lightweight steel framework and corrugated walls can be easily disassembled and transported.
Though the prototype’s components are currently made in the U.S., BSC Designs is negotiating local production with South African manufacturers. The projected cost is $1500 a piece.
So you could put your house on one pallet, and your furniture on another
As a promotion for the new Cory Doctorow book Little Brother, Instructables is running a series of related “how to” articles, including:
How to blend in with crowds
How to lie to authority figures
Encrypt your Gmail Email!
How to locate pinhole cameras
Spice Mister
Avoiding Camera Noise Signatures
How to Start A Flash Mob
How to block/kill RFID chips
Photo-emulsion Screen Printing
What to do if the police stop you
It’s shaping up to be an “anarchist cookbook” for the 21st century.
All of that fits into this:
See also: Birth of the Nuppie
This is apparently only a prototype, they are not available commercially yet. And I expect them to be rather expensive when they do become available. So how might we be able to build our own compact living solutions?
Update: Here’s a video of “unboxing” Casulo.
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