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Patkau Architects' La Petite Maison du Weekend

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This self-sustaining little house reminds us of a precious wooden jewelry box that unfolds, revealing all sorts of surprises within. Designed by Patkau Architects for the Fabrications Exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the tiny, mobile unit was made as a prototype...

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It can be relocated to virtually any outdoor site, where it will provide the basics for everyday life: sleeping for two, kitchen, shower, and composting toilet. Made of a variety of materials and premanufactured components, it generates its own electricity, collects and distributes rainwater, and composts human waste using only the natural dynamics of the site.

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Very Nice---

---unless there are bears around.

posted by bepsf on December 9th 2008 at 5:42pm
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I love this kind of thing, it's like a little treasure box of solutions you can go discover!
http://www.notyourgoddess.blogspot.com/

posted by Harpa on December 9th 2008 at 6:01pm
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I hope they can get this cheap enough that they can make it available to needy and usually homeless people around the world.

That would be such a huge blessing for them. And we certainly don't need it (it'd be just a toy for us).

posted by Mrs.Mack on December 10th 2008 at 6:28pm
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