Prefab meets green architecture meets the Jetsons in Adam Kalkin’s “Push Button House.” The “home,” built inside a shipping container and made completely from recycled materials, expands into a kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom and library—in 90 seconds. There does not appear to be a roof on this one, so you may want to wait for the next model.
Increasingly, shipping containers are being used, or rather re-used—by clever architects to construct low-cost habitable spaces. Such home and offices are “going like hotcakes” in Jamaica.
These former nautical transport devices are also being used to make retail spaces. Illy installed a café inside of Kalkin’s design, which appeared at the 52nd Venice Biennale and last month at New York’s Time Warner Center. Melbourne even has even a shipping container bar. Now if only it could cart you home at the end of the night.
[via boing boing]

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Welcome to the party, Adam’s push button house debuted at Art Basel in 2005… there was even a NY Times story about it!
http://www.joshspear.com/item/adam-kalkins-push-button-house/
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm