MoMA Home Delivery: m-ch (micro compact house)

The m-ch, now in use and available throughout Europe, combines techniques for high quality compact 'living' spaces deployed in aircraft, yachts, cars, and micro apartments. Its design has been informed by the classic scale and order of a Japanese tea-house, combined with advanced concepts and technologies. Living in an m-ch means focusing on the essential - less is more - plus its a CUBE. Awesome!


Rest Stop Internal Logic:

The ultra-modernist, ultra-pure form of the cube brings the illusion of order and built form in the high-modernist tradition onto the site. These cubes, composed probably of some type of high-strength plastic or light-weight metal (or a composite of BOTH!?!?), would be shipped flat as jointed panels and then folded together to make building blocks. Structural building blocks would be filled with earth from the site (or concrete) and stacked atop each other. Cantilevering blocks would be left hollow and either welded or else linked somehow one to the other.

Yet while the logic of the cube is ubiquitous, it is ultimately subservient to the whole of the composition. As a whole, the project is meant to resemble perhaps an explosion of color, an SOS from the desert, a ruin in the most common sense, a UFO, an unapologetic statement of nothing, and a shelter from the oblivion of non-place and perpetual transition. Thus, the primary impetus of the project still lies in the conceptual realm of human perception, history, and psychological associations.