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“ultra-groovy, ultra-sustainable abode...as cool as a frozen cucumber.” m-house is a contemporary, factory produced mobile structure which consists of two pre-finished sections that are bolted together on site to produce a generous 100sqm two bedroom house.
Designed to conform to the planning requirements of a caravan, which makes life easy in terms of planning permission, the m-house is a sturdy, well insulated timber framed volumetric structure, that conforms to the current building regulations governing house construction.
Simplicity and clarity have been the design watch-words for the project. With large timber framed windows, wood burning stove and lined with birch ply the interior of m-house is halfway between a Scandinavian cabin and a 1930’s train carriage. m-house’s external manifestation is equally unfussy. Various material options will be available to customers when choosing the unit’s rain screen cladding.
The proto-type was put on show in Kent, and further details of the project can be found at www.m-house.org. A model m-house formed part of the RIBA’s ‘Model Housing: from mobile home to country house’ exhibition. Project facts Related publicity Pod Squad, Telegraph Home Magazine, October 2008 Absolutely prefab, Kevin McCloud, TimesOnline, 4 June 2006 Mobile House in England, Detail Magazine, Series 2006, 7/8 Today's country houses, Jacobo Krauel, Structure Editions, 2005, p112-117 move House, Sean Topham, Prestel Editions, 2004, p98-101 Case study six, Bringing architecture home, what an architect can do for you… Homing Instincts, Tamsin Blanchard, The Observer magazine I saw a m-house, Technical & Practice, Architect's Journal, 25 July 2002 House of fun, Kester Rattenbury, Building Design magazine, October 2002 The mobile home - M-house, Angel Magazine, November 2002 Trailer Flash, Giles Kime, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 9 February 2002
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