A true bargain house (MIT)
Home prices in many of the world’s most famous cities run to well over $1,000
per square foot. By contrast, MIT architects have produced a decidedly more
affordable alternative: the first prototype from the Institute’s “1K House”
project, an effort to see if low-cost homes for the poor can be constructed
for $1,000, total.
The prototype, called Pinwheel House, was designed by Ying chee Chui MArch
’11, a graduate of MIT’s Department of Architecture, and has been constructed
in Mianyang, in Sichuan Province, China.
“It’s part of the responsibility of an architect, to create these spaces for
people to live,” Chui says. “It’s from the heart.”
Chui first designed Pinwheel House in 2009 as part of the design studio —
essentially a class — that launched the 1K House effort. The project is
particularly focused on affordable housing for areas hit by natural disasters,
such as the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. This prototype turned out to be more
costly, at $5,925, but is still very inexpensive in relative terms.
The idea to attempt building $1,000 homes was first conceived by Tony
Ciochetti, the Thomas G. Eastman Chair at MIT’s Center for Real Estate, and
inspired by One …
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