Micro Homes Inside Concrete Pipes Can Now Pop Up In The Gaps Between Buildings

Would you ever consider living inside a concrete water pipe? No worries, the pipe is not secret and at that place's no water in it. It'south actually a very chic and modern micro apartment of sorts, but over 8 ft broad and fitted with living, cooking and bathing facilities. This prototype project is called OPod and was developed by studio James Law Cybertecture, its main goal being to offer an affordable housing solution for densely populated cities such as Hong Kong. The thought of these cylindrical tube structures is that they can fit in the gaps between existing buildings and that they tin be stacked

These concrete pipe homes can be stacked on top of one another and structures similar to apartment buildings can be created — These concrete pipe homes can be stacked on elevation of 1 another and structures similar to apartment buildings tin be created

The interior is small and has curved walls which in the bathroom are hovered in hexagonal tiles — The interior is pocket-size and has curved walls which in the bathroom are hovered in hexagonal tiles

A typical OPod includes a living space, a small kitchen station and a bathroom compartment at the rear — A typical OPod includes a living space, a modest kitchen station and a bath compartment at the rear

These unusual concrete pods can serve as starter homes and they allow i or 2 people to observe an affordable and cozy living space in a crowded metropolis centre in a place where at that place was previously nothing. They're modular and they weigh around 22 tons. The installation cost is kept low since no bolts or brackets are needed to secure the pods. That allow the full cost of one of these tiny physical pipe homes to be just a niggling over $fifteen,000. For this coin you'd become a cozy little home with curved concrete walls, a apartment wooden flooring, a glazed front facade, a bench seat that doubles as a bed, a cooking station and a bathroom compartment with a shower and a toilet.