Fast Company

An Ultra-lowCost Modular Home

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It looks like the sort of ridiculous­ly pricey modernist retreat that design lovers dream of—a rich person’s spartan playhouse that could be nestled in the woods or perched on a heath. In fact, the 527-square-foot model home, an austere black box with large windows, cost only $9,408 to build and was fabricated largely from a single material (certified sustainabl­e plywood) by a single machine (computeriz­ed cutter). Developed within Ikea’s experiment­al Space10 lab by Danish architectu­re students Johanne Holm-jensen and Mia Behrens, the project, called Building Blocks, is a work in progress: Space10 is making all design files available for free to other architects and builders to continue developing and improving the model, an experiment in low-cost, sustainabl­e modular homes for all us non-billionair­es.

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