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This Woman's Friends Thought She Was Insane, But She's Proving Them Wrong Every Day. Posted Apr 25, by Christen Grumstrup This is Dee Williams home It is only 86 sq. ft.

This Woman's Friends Thought She Was Insane, But She's Proving Them Wrong Every Day

Her heart condition opened her eyes to the positives of living a smaller and more simple life. MDU (Mobile Dwelling Unit) - LOT-EK Architecture & Design. MDU (Mobile Dwelling Unit) Client: University Art Museum, UCSB Building Type: Mobile Dwelling Size: 500SF Completed: 2003 Structural Consultant: Giulia Viggiani Photography: Courtesy of the Walker Art Center Exhibited at: Whitney museum of American Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, University Art Museum, UCSB One shipping container is transformed into a Mobile Dwelling Unit.

MDU (Mobile Dwelling Unit) - LOT-EK Architecture & Design

Cuts in the metal walls of the container generate extruded sub-volumes, each encapsulating one living, working or storage function. When traveling, these sub-volumes are pushed in, filling the entire container. They then interlock with each other, leaving the outer skin of the container flush to allow worldwide standard shipping. Newsletter 02: MDU. LOT-EK is the New York based studio of Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.

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LOT-EK’s Mobile Dwelling Unit (MDU) began as an experimental design project in 1999. A constructed version features in a current traveling exhibition LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit which was organized by the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in conjunction with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. MDU is a 40ft shipping container that has been modified into a relocatable dwelling. The container accommodates several modules for various functions such as cooking, washing and sleeping. These modules sit within the container so that during transportation the MDU largely resembles any other container sitting on a ship or a dock.Once the MDU has been delivered to a site, the modules slide out of the container like extrusions and create an inner hallway in the newly created void inside the container.

Contained: All things container. MDU (Mobile Dwelling Unit) - LOT-EK Architecture & Design. Architect Macy Miller Builds Her Tiny Dream Home After Divorce. LittleDiggs. Tiny House6. Bunk Beds with Desk - Online Furniture & Bedding Store. Movement. Seattle Tiny Homes Movement Welcome to the tiny house movement.

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Tiny House Resources The current tiny house movement in the United States began with Jay Shafer. Fed up with America’s obsession with massive homes, Jay radically downsized. Living small means you live simply. Living small means you live inexpensively. Living small reduces your environmental impact. Today the tiny house movement is represented by the Small House Society, of which Seattle Tiny Homes is a member. Supporting the Small House Movement. Space-Saving Mobile Office – Blackhawk Secretary TrunkCocoboro. Space-Saving Mobile Office – Blackhawk Secretary Trunk The problem of the lack of space is solved in different ways, and here’s one of them – Blackhawk Secretary Trunk from Restoration Hardware, it’s a secretary’s station reminding of a large baggage case of solid hardwood covered with aircraft aluminum.

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The rounded edges evoke the airplane designs from the 1950s, it gives a ‘traveler’ appearance. Tiny Home for Around-the-World Adventure. Many people interested to have live in a truck today with variety reasons.

Tiny Home for Around-the-World Adventure

If you also want to live in truck which will accompany you in your around-the-world trip, this tiny home truck can be an inspiration. People who live in a truck usually chose this way of life because they need to travel a lot. Usually someone who live in a truck have unorganized life because there is only small space available which is not enough to store all of belongings. But, you will see different picture when you find compact residence tiny home in a truck. You will find organized and comfortable dwelling home. The space is fitted with generous storage which was designed and tailored so well to provide comfortable living for the owner of the truck. Exploring small spaces and simple living. Just another WordPress site.

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Home Office and Retreat. Update June 2013 – I never found time in 2011 or 2012 to build this home office.

Home Office and Retreat

We did adopt Reagan and she’s now 3 1/2. A family member also ran into some health issues – so I ended up building a home office/storage room in part of the garage so I could be within earshot if I was needed. But now things are running smoothly again here at the Janzen household, so I’m back to considering my options for tiny home offices – and updating this design concept and plan. As families grow the need for space changes and tiny house designs like this one might be the perfect fit. Coolest Tiny Pod Hotel Room Ever! Heathrow Travel. UpCycle Living. LOT EK Modular Dwelling Unit - Shipping Container Homes Australia. Heathrow airport hotels, London - Yotel. Shipping container home.

Go to step by step constuction Remote accomodation is always a challenge in difficult terrain. What follows is an example of using two conventional shipping containers to create 90 square meters of living space in dense rainforest adjoining World Heritage Rainforest. The facility, on a nature refuge is used for rainforest research. The terrain is extremely difficult and accessed via a narrow track made by woodcutters in 1928. The techniques are simple and require only very basic skills. Shipping Container Homes: Jamie Durie, Top Design - Sydney, Australia, - 5 x 20 FT Container Studio Homes. Episode 1 The first challenge for contestants is to convert a shipping container into a practical home.

Shipping Container Homes: Jamie Durie, Top Design - Sydney, Australia, - 5 x 20 FT Container Studio Homes

It must contain a living area, sleeping area and eating space. The 10 contestants are broken up into two teams of five and given $25,000 and four days to complete the challenge. They will use innovative ideas and creative techniques to maximise space and create comfortable, livable rooms. Intermodal container. A 40-foot (12.19 m) long shipping container.

Intermodal container

Each of the eight corners has a simple twistlock fitting for stacking, locking and craning. Shipping container architecture. A temporary bank branch built from shipping containers in Germany Shipping container architecture is a form of architecture using steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as structural element, because of their inherent strength, wide availability and relatively low expense. Advantages[edit] Strength and durability Shipping containers are in many ways an ideal building material. They are designed to carry heavy loads and to be stacked in high columns.

Modular All shipping containers are made to standard measurements and as such they provide modular elements that can be combined into larger structures. Labor The welding and cutting of steel is considered to be specialized labor and can increase construction expenses, yet overall it is still lower than conventional construction. Transport. Shipping Container Homes, Meka World: One of the ...