Accommodation should be
cheaper and it should move.
To these
conclusions came Jeff Wilson (Jeff Wilson), a professor of Huston-Tillotson University,
at the end of his voluntary "imprisonment". Now he is a CEO of a company Kasita
that has developed a very unconventional idea of modern living, which combines
iconic design and innovative technology. Let's find out the details.
The House Kasita consists of two parts: a
metal frame and compact block-apartments.
Advantages of this arrangement are on the surface.
- Each accommodation can get and move to another rack in any part of the world, if there are free cells. It's enough to order a truck through a special application for the iPhone.
- No need to pack your things, hire a courier service and settle down again on arrival. Your utensils will not be lost, and repairs are not affected
The base three-story
house is about 100 m2. Thus, it can be fit even in a densely populated existing building or on less suitable or previously unused plot of land.
The downside is a small yardage of apartments. The
area of each box is equal to 19.3 m2. It may seem that this is too little,
however, there are a number of winning factors.
- Low cost of rent. According to the creators, the price drops by half at least. And it is very impressive money when it comes to the central areas of major cities.
- The full internal equipment of apartments.
The apartment is packed with full of trendy clever things with a voice control. So light turnes on,
runs your favorite playlist or bed rolls. Of course, the options will expand.
Each block has a kitchen,
toilet, washing machine and other common amenities.
However, water and
electricity come through a
normal
city highway, which is connected to the rack Kasita. Perhaps later focus will shift in
favor of "green" technologies, as is done in Ecocapsule - Autonomous
mobile house for two. But it will happen no earlier than in spring 2016.
The first Kasita house in Austin, Texas opens soon.
Such houses will be built in a dozen US cities and
even in Stockholm, Sweden.
What do you think about such city houses? Would you
like to have Kasita houses in Poland? Would you buy such an apartment?
Comments
understand how possible is access to water, electricity and so on in
such case. But certainly moving the whole part of house to another one
is money saver. Also if there will be one day invented good way of
transporting flats it would be easier to change place of living, the
cost of organizing new flat woudn’t be a problem anymore.
I guess that there will be such houses in the future and they will be
very popular. But as usual to have anything in Poland takes a lot of
time. But when everything will be more clear and realistic I could try
living in such flat.
I think, at first, it will develop in larger countries than Poland and more populated cities.
Personally, I would not like to live in such house. There would be not enough space, I don’t like tight spaces.
This is for the people who frequently change their place of residence.
Anyway as I mentioned I like having more space for my things, pets and myself. I also like having parties and not many people could squeeze in there. I don't think I could be a target audience for such a place.
but I just cant imagine trucks carrying "houses" from one place to the other in a mass scale. For me this concept revolutionise current perception of accommodation, we will no longer have our
own place, we will own certain space which may be moved between many places.
There might be something to the idea, it might work for some, but I don't think it's something for me.
I think that in near future we will be able to see such concepts with your own garden :) Just like 'Now you can move not only your apartment, but your garden'. I think it is possible :D
As up-mentioned firstly Kasita houses will be built in US cities, then in Sweden and probably in other European countries in future.
What about access to electricity and water, I couldn't find any additional information and I am not sure about it as well. But I think it is easy to access an electricity, but not water. It is still unclear for me.
it is a fact! Its part of very large school infrastructure, helping a lot of students to find their place cheap and close to their univeristy! This solution is easy to maintain and to build. The best is that they are using conteiners so u can change it or connect them with eachother!
Probably I wouldn't like to live in such tiny house. Containers, without real walls aren't that comfy as brick-builded flats.
From time to time in the architecture appear newer and newer ideas that surprise.
Thus I was more surprised how in China are built houses and villas. Below I attach a link to an article that describes this process:
http://inhabitat.com/chinese-company-builds-3d-printed-villa-in-less-than-3-hours/3d-printed-villa-by-zhuoda-4/
I agree with you that it is really useful for students.
But I think if it is a successful project then there will be such houses in Poland.
It probably would be very expensive to have a mobile house now and not everything might work there and maybe renting a flat would be easier, but... Kasita vision is still wonderful and I imagine that houses like these will be more available in the future.
So I hope this idea will come true.
I would not want to live in this apartment because it is too small, I prefer more space.
Now that's a great idea!