It's like Ikea made a house!

This is great. I like it so much I blogged about it. Check it out:

modestconquest.com

this is like an office, awesome

Very cool!

Amazing!

Is this where the students go when they are on detention? LOL

What a nice idea.

Fun. I'll put one in my living room.

Actually I don't think I could tolerate the lack of living space for more than a few days...

Cool concept!

When can I move in??

Very interesting and very nice, but the Television is much too big for that space ;-)

Perfect!

We may all have no choice but to live in one of these one day.

why are the solar panels facing just one direction, wouldn't that give you less power during certain parts of the day?

Duuuuude!!! how can i buy one of this for me?

Great initiative / message Mike !

A 5 x 5 x 5m version would probably allow for a more realistic living space through the year for 2 people & give it a "mini-loft" feeling (too small, even for 1 person to me).

A version you can stack-up with external stairs to upper floors would also lower the impact on the environment.

My advice having worked in the photovolaïc business : forget the vertical panels as they'll produce almost no electricity & add a south-facing window (isn't seing sunsets is the best part of the day), eventually protected by solar panels extending over the roof (not sure about UK constraints to get the feed-in tarif) for summer light/heat.

More infos : cubeproject.org.uk

spectacular !!!

it's not a cube though..
the micro compact home, which is several years old, is one.

Without the TV I would have been impressed a lot more. But great project!

Ug ftw

So I take it Dr Mike lives in one? A bit to claustrophobic for me.

How much did this cost and how much would it cost if it were on sale??

Please could you tell me the precise rendering settings that you used?
The video has an awesome quality but fits in vimeo without restrictions.

This seems like a great idea... for china.
So what type of person in the western world would live in on of these houses and where would they be placed? will they be randomly scattered around or would there be spacial parks for them?
More than likely these will be going to the poorer class of people. Homeless, mentally unstable. i think that will cause more problems than solving them. People will start storing things outside and around the cubes which will look unsightly and no telling what the smells might be, but thats just me thinking in the term of how trailer park go.
id like to know every one else's opinion.

It could use more space (height) for the bed... for the two "friendly" people.

How many kWh used to make that cube thingy?

they're just rubbing it in for over weight people

Cool project. I would honestly want to live in one of these. I posted a link to this video on my Environment blog: topiclog.com/topic/5DB-UCzIG

I like it with wheels.

Seems like another techo-utopian fantasy project. Sorry, but we to learn more about retrofitting, redesign, community/communal service provision and social innovation than how to build individualistic units that pander to existing lifestyles.