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. The 2.65m aluminium cube is specifically designed for short-stay smart living and is suitable for a variety of locations, providing sophisticated compact accommodation for business or leisure use. All mod cons are integrated including furniture,
sound, flat-screen, communication and energy systems. It’s quick to install once on site and has minimal impact on the natural landscape to satisfy sustainability concerns. On this side of the Atlantic the m-ch can be experienced first hand at TU Munich campus, where the prototype student village continues to be occupied by students of the university. In the UK, m-ch Ltd is currently seeking planning permission for a development of units on a brownfield site in central London. The company is also working with Irwell Valley Housing Association to develop a village for medical students in Manchester.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York runs from 20 July – 20 October 2008.