Living in Pods: The Charm of Minimal and Portable Housing

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“With the forgiveness of the master [Le Corbusier], the house is a machine to carry with you and the city a machine to which you connect”. That phrase was said almost 60 years ago by David Greene, the founder of the English group Archigram. He was speaking on the presentation of the Living Pod, a capsule house that could be transformed into a trailer. The idea was that the structure could be connected and disconnected from the cities, forming the Plug-In City. Designed as an airtight capsule, the interior was small and comfortable, with multiple compartments. The Living Pod was one of many similarly utopian and daring projects by this group that seemed to have a fixation on nomadic and mutant structures like the Walking City and the Instant City.

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Cite: Ghisleni, Camilla. "Living in Pods: The Charm of Minimal and Portable Housing" [Vivendo em um casulo: o fascínio pelas habitações mínimas e portáteis] 14 Mar 2023. ArchDaily. (Trans. Simões, Diogo) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/997829/living-in-pods-the-charm-of-minimal-and-portable-housing> ISSN 0719-8884

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