m-ch Crosses the Atlantic

published Apr 13, 2008
m-ch Crosses the Atlantic
The award winning micro-compact home (m-ch) is to make its US debut this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.

The micro-compact home is a revolutionary low energy lightweight prefabricated dwelling pioneered by Professor Richard Horden and his fellow teachers and students of the department of Architecture and Product Design, Technical University Munich.

Selected from 400 architectural projects, the m-ch is one of five full-scale prefabricated homes to be displayed in the outdoor space to the west of MoMA's building.

The five projects will be shown in the context of a further 58 projects displayed in the sixth-floor International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, offering the most thorough examination to date of both the historic and contemporary significance of factory-produced architecture from 1833 to today.

Since its launch in November 2005 the micro-compact home has taken the world by storm, encouraging consumers the world over to embrace the beauty of "sizing down".

Inspired by frequent flights on business class, the m-ch applies the rules of interior aviation design and demonstrates how state of the art technology can be integrated into a lightweight transportable dwelling to produce an efficient, compact and desirable living space.