Beijing architect lives in egg-shaped house on sidewalk
 

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/home-desig...lery-49-1.html

"Beijing architect lives in egg-shaped house on sidewalk
By Lori Bongiorno and Trystan L. Bass
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Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old architect in Beijing, China, found an ingenious solution to live rent-free. He built himself a mobile egg-shaped house that is powered by the sun.

The 6-foot-high structure, which is small enough to fit on a sidewalk, is made of bamboo strips, wood chippings, sack bags, and grass seed that’s expected to grow in the spring.

The pod features a solar panel on the roof that powers a lamp in the cozy space. The house cost around $1,000 to build (6427 yen), according to China Daily.

It seems Haifei has taken the trend of living in tiny spaces to a whole new level.

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http://l.yimg.com/mb/api/res/1.2/6e8...d3ee0-egg1.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/mb/api/res/1.2/QS1...141f-egg-3.jpg

That's pretty cool. It would suck if a group of guys decided to roll it over for fun.

**Dai Haifei 24yrs goes to club, later after few drinks he meet hot girl so talked & then later decides to go back to his place for some more fun but then when hot girl finds out he lives in egg-shaped house on sidewalk.......uh-oh**

u know where i going with this

rofl how can he do it in there? must get very creative. Also, what if it snows?

maybe he can start exploiting the economics of the space he has and flip the bed to create a bathtub and call it the "domestic transformer"

:troll:

so where does he shower and use the washroom?

I think this is a start of some kind of solutions for the third world countries. :thumbsup:

affordable and portable homes!

I hate to say this, but Vancouver should just build a bunch of this for low income housings. They should just sell the olympic condos at full prices to only ppl who can pay the full premium prices, and use the revenue from that to build egg-shape houses.

of course, I disgree with supply any housing to ppl who are too lazy to work.

Chinese person hatching out of an egg nice

imagine reporting to the police that your house has been stolen :rofl:

When I was young, my mother told me people explode from rocks

The story is like this, this guy works for an architect company. Rent is so damn high in Beijing, he bought some building materials to build this egg. The egg is within the company premise, so he can boil water at work. Sometimes it's too damn cold, he has to stay inside the building.

His work place is like right beside the egg. He could just go back work to pee and shit.

The egg has wheels underneath. I bet he has a bike lock or something.

interesting

this guy probably got the idea from spongebob squarepants LOL

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:x...s-s015.jpg&t=1

interesting idea but my dogs would piss all over it, no joke lol.

i too am curious where he goes to the washroom. for showering, it's not uncommon to use bath houses and community centres/gyms in asia. could you imagine entire communities of these egg pods? lol. we could make an egg city for the homeless somewhere.

I hate articles that can't get its currencies correct. Yen is the Japanese currency..RMB or sometimes called 'yuan' is the currency of PRC.

I don't see it very practical if I had explosive diarrhea in the middle of the night.

he basically lives on the streets and just sleeps int he egg at night, no way in hell can he lie in bed all day and do diddly shit.

last two posts lol F@$^ hilarious

first thing I thought of

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/ima...23_720_480.jpg

This guy built an egg on the side of the street and refers to himself as an architect.

probably saves him a couple g's down payment a month

How about starting to tag homeless persons.
It should be a provincial problem when it comes to budgetary concerns, we're dealing with a bunch of runaways from the east that come down to Vancouver for the 'milder' weather.

Also, start creating camps for the homeless people. Pay them <min wage w/ housing, etc. Imagine crown corps that start competing with asia for manual labour.

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