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Push Button House
Push Button House by Adam Kalkin
Following the success of this summer's movie Transformers.... the Push Button House by Adam Kalkin. The fully furnished space opens like a flower completely revealing a functional living room. The container has motorized walls that on a button reveals an elegant all white space or closes for easy and conventional transportation.
The Push Button House by Adam Kalkin is a fully functional living space that opens and closes with relative easy ... easy to ship and ready to use. A great addition to the container collection!
We’re all familiar with coffee to go, but what about a “To Go” coffee house? The world’s first “instant café” is the brainchild of architect and artist Adam Kalkin, whose work involves the design and implementation of “Quik Houses” created from used shipping containers. The instant coffee house was born out of the concept of crate internet cafés (Where’s there’s a computer, there must be coffee, right?) and redesigned from Kalkin’s Push Button House, which previewed at Art Basel Miami Beach.
The Cargo Café can be delivered just about anywhere by truck. From there, it’s a mere push of a button and a 90 second wait for it to open (which it does like a blooming flower) before the fully furnished café it’s ready for business – lights, tables, seats, even a kitchen are included.
Designed for Italian coffee chain illy, the café premiered at the 52nd International Art Exhibition in Venice and will next caffeinate New York’s holiday shoppers at Time Warner Center November 28 and December 29 of this year.
Adam Kalkin has earned quite a reputation for his designs – comfortable spaces in ususual contexts seems to be a theme. Kalkin’s Quick Houses have been extremely successful in the U.S. and U.K. So much so that there’s a six month waiting list to get your hands on one. Quoted on IndustryWatch, Kalkin said simply, “I can’t crank this stuff out fast enough.”
Luckily for us, the houses Kalkin cranks out are made entirely from recycled materials.
Quik House by Kalkin & Co.
One new trend in cargo-container architecture is the emergence of kit homes that use some of the high-concept ideas of earlier experiments in the form. Architect Adam Kalkin, for example, recently announced production of the Quik House, seen here in a rendering, made from shipping containers.Kalkin calls the Quik House "the perfection of the modular building block."
While the Quik House can easily be used as a single dwelling, Kalkin says a client in New York is interested in adding one of the units on his roof to avoid disturbing neighbors with noisy and lengthy construction.
Adam Kalkin's Cottage
This 2,000 square foot home, built in 2001, is actually built around a smaller cottage-style house that has stood in that location for decades. The cottage house almost looks like a gigantic version of a dollhouse inside of the huge storage shed that forms the exterior of this innovative house. The 3 bedroom 2.5 bath home is also made from 5 large shipping containers and 3 on the bottom, and 2 stacked on top of those.
This place also contains all of the modern features of a ‘normal’ home, but it’s supposedly built to last much longer. The creator of this innovative home is Adam Kalkin, and he’s actually selling these homes for as little as $76,000, or less than $100 per square foot and not a bad deal considering traditional construction of a new home averages about double that amount.
Adam Kalkin is most recognizable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy. Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures.
Kalkin's prefab homes use anywhere from one to six, or sometimes even 12 shipping containers as the frame for the home. Kalkin's homes tend to range in price from $150-$400 per square foot, with the cheapest container house costing $50,000. Some are very simple, merely containing a room in in a single container, where as others have whole other structures built inside them.
A Cafe in a Shipping Container
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art basel miami beach,
biennale illy,
cafe,
caffeine,
fondazione la biennale di venezia,
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paul erdo,
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Where there are computer programmers, there must also be caffeine. Consider the fact that the nerd store ThinkGeek has a whole section devoted to the substance. One of my favorite sayings was adapted from a line in mathematician Paul Erdos’ biography, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: “A programmer is a machine for converting caffeine into software.”
It logically follows that if there are computing centers in shipping containers, there should also be some kind of caffeine dispensers in shipping containers as well. Here come artist Adam Kalkin and fancy-pants coffee vendor Illy to the rescue:
For the 52nd International Art Exhibition in Venice illycaffè is partnering with the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia for the fourth time.
At the Biennale illy will provide art-lovers and coffee connoisseurs a beautiful space to relax, reflect and enjoy a perfect cup of espresso. Visitors to illymind, the rest and refreshment area founded by illy in 2003, will be introduced to the Push Button House which opens like a flower and transforms from a compact container into a fully furnished and functional space with the push of a button.
After the preview at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Push Button House, a work designed by American artist-architect Adam Kalkin and redesigned for the presence of illycaffè at the 52nd International Art Exhibition, arrives for the first time in Europe.
Kalkin is known for designing comfortable spaces and placing them in unusual contexts. Visitors to the Push Button House will experience the artist’s ability to transform industrial materials into a domestic masterpiece, beautifully contrasting between the indoor and outdoor worlds, while enjoying complimentary illy espresso for a complete authentic Italian experience. The entire work was created from recyclable materials.
By Global Nerdy
