Digital house

More likely aesthetic, rather than ascetic, compact hut can be even more tiny than an SUV, but inside it hides much more amenities.
Welcome to the compact micro-cottage, the 7-square-meter palace of the future, designed by Richard Horden , a professor at the Technical University of Munich, in response to the growing demand for temporary homes. This is not an easy-dressed shack: a micro-cottage - BMW among small houses. Having paid $ 96,000 per cube (including delivery and installation to any place in Europe), the owner receives a comprehensive interior equipped with everything necessary - from a flat-screen TV to a dining table with seats for five.

In the future, solar panels and a roof-mounted wind turbine with a vertical axis will generate 2,200 kilowatts of energy per year, so that the house will provide energy for itself and the owner himself.
The aluminum bimetallic dwelling can and slightly scares the outside, but everything really interesting is inside. “This is a home for people who love interiors,” says Horden. "All the surfaces inside the house are functional - like a car or airplane control system."
Since the end of 2005, students of the Technical University of Munich and the state have lived in the first settlement of seven micro-houses, a settlement of 16 houses was created in a place near Vienna, in Austria. “There is no more reason to have huge spaces for life,” says Gregory Paul Johnson, director of Small House Society, a public organization based in Iowa, USA. “In the end - maybe today your entire media collection fits in one iPod.”
Furniture is no longer needed. The compact interior of the micro-cottage includes:
1. Fire alarm and smoke detectors;
2. A retractable table, with seating for five people;
3. Two beds, a length of 228 centimeters (a berth above the dining table and a retractable bed at floor level);
4. Shelves and dressers for storing clothes, bedding, junk for cleaning, equipment and other things;
5. Control panel with control of all electrics: heating, air conditioning, TV, CD player, LED lighting;
6. Bathroom with a retractable screen that separates the toilet and shower, plus an area for drying clothes and shoes;
7. Kitchen equipped with microwave, refrigerator / freezer, sink, waste container, two-level worktop.

This note is a translation of the article " Condominimum " by Gary Marshall from Wired magazine in May 2007. Some illustrations are taken from the following sources: Wired: www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/pl_home_p90.html
micro compact home www.microcompacthome.at/contact/?l=e
Richard Horden www.0lll.com/archgallery2/horden_micro -compact-home / index.htm
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