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Concrete tubes just over eight feet wide, with a bench that turns into a bed, could be your solution
Daily Mail ^
| 15 January 2018
| Sara Malm
Posted on 01/15/2018 4:19:51 PM PST by mairdie
A Hong Kong architect has invented what he believed to be the solution of overcrowded cities by turning concrete water pipes into tiny homes.
The OPod Tube Housing system aims to re-purpose concrete tubes measuring just over eight feet in diameter, and turn them into 'micro-homes' with 100 square feet of living space.
It is the brainchild of architect James Law of James Law Cybertecture who designed the build as a possible solution to the lack of both space and affordable housing in Hong Kong.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: architecture; house
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To: riverrunner
My gramps built one exactly like it. He’d put in a 1kw inverter, can run his laptop/TV and it’s quite the cozy setup.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:56:23 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: mairdie



In a storm drain under the highway....
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:16:56 PM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: a fool in paradise
I want to live like Matt Foley.
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:17:25 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
To: mairdie
When I was a boy, it was called our fort. LOL
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:17:35 PM PST
by
healy61
To: Covenantor; mairdie
Supermax prison cell...
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:21:31 PM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: mairdie

It's not a 'tenement', it's a 'tiny home'.
To: mairdie
If two tubers got romantic, and decided to
shack up get married, maybe they could put their two tubes together, something like this:

Ignore the writing on the graphic, it's the only pic I could find! :-)
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:29:37 PM PST
by
Songcraft
("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
To: Pray All Day
And voila! A bathroom AND a bedroom. Now if they could only turn their marriage into a threesome, they could also add a kitchen.
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:33:19 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: Covenantor
MUCH bigger than the tiny houses!
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:33:59 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: Snickering Hound
Terminology is everything.
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:34:34 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
US Navy submarine crew's quarters:

Not for me!
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:37:39 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
To: jonrick46
Amazing! Did it take a while to learn to sleep in that environment?
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:40:32 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: jonrick46
That's where the term, 'hit the rack' originates.
It's late, I'm gong to hit the rack.
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:46:47 PM PST
by
blam
To: SkyDancer
Niiice.
I’ve seen a number of builds like that.
Very creating and utilitarian.
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posted on
01/15/2018 5:52:41 PM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: dangus
To your point:
If you took every man, woman and child on the face of the earth right now and moved the all to the state of Rhode Island, each person would get approximately a football feilds worth of space (even the babies- who probably wouldnt use it all).
To: dfwgator
Amazing video. I wonder if anyone ever got ‘lost’ in the rooms? :)
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posted on
01/15/2018 6:02:54 PM PST
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
To: Snickering Hound
"It's not a 'tenement', it's a 'tiny home." They don't seem very happy about the situation, do they..?
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posted on
01/15/2018 6:06:22 PM PST
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: unread
We were shopping for recliners and I asked the lady salesperson if she had any transformer chairs. She asked what that was. I said a chair that transforms in a casket when I need it. Hey I’m old and practical.
To: mairdie
I have 6500 sq ft of living space. No way, Hosea, or whoever the Chink/Jap you think you are.
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posted on
01/15/2018 6:29:49 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
To: ASOC
That bottom picture is the tube I had seen. When I had seen them years ago they were supposed to be for students or something...maybe it was one of these weird Dutch publicly owned things for vagabonds and homeless? Kinda like their public bikes and rolling floating apartment in a water tank things? Anyway, ya, not new.
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posted on
01/15/2018 6:41:21 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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