I never knew a shipping crate could be
used so creatively. Over the past few years, the trend in living spaces has
gotten much smaller, more optimized and eco-friendly. Sometimes minimal living
spaces are like minimal LEGO builds – the smaller they are, the more inspiring
they are, and we’ve written about many of them including a remodeled dumpster home and an 84-square foot
home (7.8 square meters).
My favorite one though has to be the
man who created an award-winning apartment
design with 24 rooms which is only a total of 344 square feet
(31.9 square meters). You can read about that on Could You Live In This Space?.
Today I’d like to share
another inspiring architectural design which involves an elegant home that
opens up with the touch of a button. As if being a “push button” home wasn’t
interesting enough, this house was built inside a shipping container.
This is how it works…when someone
pushes the button; it uses hydraulic power to open the shipping
crate completely up. The process takes about 90 seconds (and I bet it’s loud).
Once it’s unfolded, the person living in it will enjoy a cozy bed, a couch, a dining table, a bathroom, a
library and all the fixins’ that go along with these things like light fixtures, a rug and rich
colors which give it all an elegant look. To make it even better, everything inside the home was created from
recycled or recyclable materials.
This shipping crate home is part of Adam Kalkin‘s project called Push
Button House. He is now working on his shipping crate 2.0 in a new project
called Push Button House 2. Unfortunately, these houses aren’t for
sale, they are just an expression of design, creativity, sustainability and
innovation. This all kind of reminds me of
that Starbucks Location Built From
Recycled Shipping Crates.
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