MicroCH installed at the MoMA
The microCH has been installed at the MoMA’s Home Delivery exhibit. If you’re in New York, be sure to check it out.
The microCH has been installed at the MoMA’s Home Delivery exhibit. If you’re in New York, be sure to check it out.
It all sounds very simple and obvious now, with the micro compact home in constant use, but the configuration of the cube evolved from many 1:20 study models. By early 2002, we had 150 students building models and developing their own variants for the project. The final version of the micro compact home is the result of input from at least 200 students, 10 assistants, and 1 professor.
The MoMA prefab exhibit has posted a video to YouTube detailing how the burst* home that we reported on will be installed in New York this year:
First installed in Australia, New York based System Architects’ BURST* 003 set out to completely stray from the typical prefabricated home and all of the stigmas attached to it. It certainly seems as though this aim was achieved.
We will be forever grateful to the MoMA for having the audacity to fund such an ambitious exhibit, Home Delivery , that will feature some of the best names in modern prefab. In addition to the exhibit, they have started a corresponding blog profiling the homes that will be displayed. We will continue to highlight some of the interesting output of this blog.
Continue reading for an excerpt from the entry about the Cellophane House as well as more photos.