OC: French architecture firm Multipod Studio has come up with a revolutionary housing prototype – the PopUp House. This unique dwelling comes in the form of stackable blocks that anyone can put together IKEA style, using only a screwdriver. It’s supposedly as easy as building with Legos. MORE
I’m sure it will do well in the next Hurricane Sandy and can probably easily hold out hordes of invading moslimes vermin breaking down the front door and climbing through the Windows. Not to mention obamasons on the roving hunt.
doesn’t matter how cheap or easy you make having a home.
in 20 years you will still see grass and mud/dung house’s in third world countries.
sears roebuck used to sell kit homes.
but at least you needed a hammer to put those together.
French legos, huh.
do they surrender when the wind blows?
Bass Pro sell log cabins that put that to shame.
The apparent flat roof is a deal killer for me.
I have a 12 x 16 cabin on our land ” up north ” Wisconsin but if my wife and I spent more than a week together in it we would be having a shootout real quick!
The already have self assembly homes in Africa and other Bucolic lands; they call it mud
So now a person can screw around for 4 days and wind up with a house? Is Habitat for Humanity involved here in any way?
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I do not claim to be an expert in architecture, but how can this house survive flooding and high wind without a concrete foundation?
Cruise through New Orleans sometime, check out the BRICK housing projects the natives manage to destroy in only a few years. This snap together idea won’t last.
Goodness you guys. It beats the pants off a trailer! .
Trailers have pants now???
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I’d rather have an American made trailer.
“IKEA-Style Home Can Be Built in 4 Days Using Only a Screwdriver……. and leveled to the ground in four seconds by a child’s fart.”
Cheapest way is probably shipping container homes:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to/g172/shipping-container-homes-460309/
If you want something that can stand up to a tornado or a hurricane:
http://www.monolithic.org/
They have classes so people can build them themselves and save money. It’s not the cheapest route, but probably the safest design for a home in severe weather.
They don’t appear to have put any thought at all into the utility runs.
It looks like, with some of those plans, you would need to run two sets of water and two sets of sewer lines.
Correct me if I’m wrong but a 1600sf house, priced at $1600 per square meter (9sf approx) puts the base model at $284,000. ?
@Mark Zist:
That there’s a bargain in these parts (metro NYC).
$284k is without plumbing and electricity.
Hell, I just purchased a 484,000 square foot house in Flint for $17.64
I watched the video: its a giant styrofoam cooler. A mousetrap for hipsters if you will.