Mini houses. For a single and for a family.
Meet Single Hauz by Front Architects from Poland. It is a specific manifest, a suggestion of a house/shelter for contemporary Western Man. As the Wedlock, a fundamental family unit, ceased to be the only way of life, a free-standing one-person housing unit fills a certain gap: lack of such propositions for so-called "singles".
Inspired by a billboard it is designed as an object that can easily fit into almost any place on Earth. Particularly recommended to locations with extra-ordinary landscape conditions: forest, sea, lake, mountains, meadows; yet a sideway of a city thoroughfare.
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zeroHouse with its usable interior of 650 sq.ft net is a completely self-sufficient and incredibly comfortable place for living.
It is a small, prefabricated house that can easily be shipped and quickly erected. It features a full kitchen, bath, and all elements necessary to comfortably support four adults (singles or a family :-) What sets the zeroHouse apart from other prefabricated structures on the market, is its ability to operate independently, without the need for any external utility or waste disposal connections.
- High-efficiency solar panels produce power and store it in an onboard bank of batteries. Fully charged, zeroHouse can operate continuously for up to one week with no sunlight at all.
- A rainwater collection plane gathers and diverts water into an elevated 2700 gallon cistern. All plumbing fixtures are gravity-fed, eliminating the need for power-consuming pumps.
- All organic waste is processed in a digester unit located beneath the house. It converts the waste into clean, dry compost that needs to be removed only twice a year.
- All functions of the house are monitored by an array of sensors and regulated by a “house brain” that can be controlled through any laptop computer.
zeroHouse is fully customizable for personal usage patterns, from the weekend getaway to extended-stay living. It can be used in many applications, including residential uses in remote or ecologically sensitive locations, as ecotourism resort units, or as living or office modules for remote employment such as mining, construction, or relief agency uses. It can be located almost anywhere. Two flatbed trucks carry all the zeroHouse components to the site, and it can be erected in less than a day. zeroHouse can be installed in places that would unsuitable for standard construction including water up to ten feet deep, or on slopes of up to thirty-five degrees.
