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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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posted on
01/15/2018 4:19:51 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:22:05 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Leave it to the Asians to figure out how better to pack themselves like Sardines.
To: mairdie
Somebody read John Steinbeck's Cannery Row too many times.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:23:58 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: mairdie
Mmmmm... I’d take one, but I’m not seeing a throne anywhere in there.
A man has to poop!
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:24:24 PM PST
by
chris37
(Take a week off racist >;-)
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:24:41 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:25:33 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mairdie
Shove Al Gore and mayor DeFascio in one of those tubes.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:25:55 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:26:36 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Prisoners can’t be put in such small spaces.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:26:57 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: mairdie
They are laid the proper orientation. You can just crap on the floor and it will eventually slide out the end.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:27:37 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: mairdie
It’s like living in a customized van. By the river
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:27:54 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: MrEdd
All they are is another brick in the wall
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:28:36 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:29:01 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Here in California we outlawed doing this to chickens. Free range!
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:29:15 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Those tubes can double as a coffin when you kick the bucket.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:30:17 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Our masters say this is for our own good.
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:30:48 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:30:49 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/15/2018 4:31:03 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
So if you shack up in one of these things, would one call it a tubal pregnancy?
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