I was finally able to make it up to the Museum of Modern Art's architecture exhibition, "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling." This is going to be part one of five parts since I got to take so many photos of the exhibition. This was the favorite of my friend Jenny and I of all the houses there. SYSTEM3 was designed by Austrian architects Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf, who have spent year creating inexpensive, prefabricated homes. It was designed to fit into a shipping container for easy truck shipment. If you don't believe it, check out the installation video from MOMA. It's pretty spectacular. I especially loved the detail of the stair footprint that runs along the front wall. And a gorgeous detail, which you can see in the bottom photo, is the perforated windows that are lined with steel. The chair and table set as well as the bed was wonderfully simple. This is the most space we all need, I think. I can't wait to live in a shipping container if it looks like this. Here's a quote about the house form MOMA:
"The design of flat floor and roof plates was conceived to accommodate vertical stacking, pivoting, and the vertical loads associated with larger structures. The project for MoMA represents the minimal configuration, but the architects also imagine a potential maximum configuration of thirty units stacked and arranged to create a ten-story, 11,000-square-foot office tower."
Check out MOMA's Home Delivery site.
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