Could flat-packed houses be the answer to Australia's housing crisis?
Big World Homes offer modular, mobile, 'off the grid' housing systems made from 39 thermal, waterproof integrated panels for just $65,000. And the best part is, you can build it yourself, saving you up to 80 per cent on an equivalent sized house. You can order the houses online and, using a hammer, wrench and drill, you'll only a friend to help you build it.
The home includes all white goods and everything the house needs to run. "It has all its water tanks; we have two potable water tanks, we've got one grey water tank, so all the waste water effectively comes to the grey water tank, you add an additive to it and then effectively that's safe to go on your garden,” says Architect Alex Symes, the founder of Big World Homes. "We've got the gas cylinders for cooking and also for hot water heating, [and] we've got batteries at the back – they're linked to the solar PV and that's effectively what runs all your lights."
Features of the Big World Home include:
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modular, portable, flat-packed housing system
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39 digitally manufactured flat-pack panels
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structural-thermal-waterproof integrated design
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off-grid energy & water
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low environmental impact materials
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Can be built by two people over a couple of days with online support.
Why not watch how a flat-packed home is built?
Would you live in a flat-packed home? Do you think that, someday, we'll see entire communities of this type of housing? How do you feel about that?
I think the shipping containers are certainly ideal for people living on acerage. I know there is business down south of Perth where they are set up as accommodation for holiday makers.
Here is a link where you can purchase or hire.
http://www.shippingcontainers.com.au/?gclid=COTk1tHKts8CFZBvvAod1OgD5A