Richard Horden (Horden Cherry Lee Architects)
Venue: The Festival of Xtreme Building City Centre Site
Revolutionary light weight low energy dwelling.
On June 9th 2007 the Micro Compact Home www.microcompacthome.com designed by Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee Architects (London) was fully habitable at The Festival of Xtreme Building Birmingham City Centre Site; it will provide the centre piece for the festival.
Inspired by frequent flights on the business class, the m-ch applies the rules of aviation design and demonstrates how state of the art technology can be integrated into a light weight transportable dwelling to produce an efficient, compact and desirable living space.
The aluminium cube is specifically designed for short-stay smart living and is suitable for a variety of locations, providing sophisticated compact accommodation for business or leisure use.
All mod cons are integrated. It’s quick to install once on site and has minimal impact on the natural landscape to satisfy sustainability concerns.
It stands at 2.6sq meters and is the ultimate example of mirco living; only available in Munich as part of an O2 sponsored student village until now.
PRESS RELEASE APRIL 2008
m-ch crosses the Atlantic
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
20 July - 20 October 2008
The award winning micro-compact home (m-ch) is to make its US debut this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
The micro-compact home is a revolutionary low energy lightweight prefabricated dwelling pioneered by Professor Richard Horden and his fellow teachers and students of the department of Architecture and Product Design, Technical University Munich.
Selected from 400 architectural projects, the m-ch is one of five full-scale prefabricated homes to be displayed in the outdoor space to the west of MoMA's building. The five projects will be shown in the context of a further 58 projects displayed in the sixth-floor International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, offering the most thorough examination to date of both the historic and contemporary significance of factory-produced architecture from 1833 to today.
Full details and project credits www.microcompacthome.com
Professor Richard Horden, who is based in London and Munich, will be in New York and available for interview at MoMA 12-23 July 2008.
Press enquiries, micro compact home:
Claire Curtice
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concept and development: tu munich, institute prof. richard horden europe and usa patents applied for copyright richard horden