Push Button House

The Push Button House by artist-architect Adam Kalkin is just one more way to transform an abandoned shipping container into something new. (See PUMA City). Since debuting the idea, Kalkin has been overrun with orders for the innovative concept house.

With the push of a button, the house opens in 90 seconds like a flower and transforms from a compact container into a fully furnished and functional space with a kitchen, dining room, bathroom, bedroom, living room and library. All materials used in the Biennale house were recyclable or recycled.

The Italian coffee company illy has taken the idea to a new level, opening temporary illy Push Button shops in Venice and New York. Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe, has been quoted as saying, illy was initially interested in Kalkin’s idea as an examination of “home as one continuous mouldable surface, a relief against which human activity would pop out.”

Why didn't human beings think of this a long time ago?

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