MIT's Affordable & Sustainable $1K House Project To Be Launched

MIT launched the “1K House” project in the year 2009 to confront  designers to bring new accommodator designs that are reasonably priced, sustainable and that can improve the progress the situation of millions of citizens that survive on less that 1$ a day. One of such housed is designed by a student of MIT named Ying Chee Chui. The design is named as “Pinwheel House”.



The idea of 1K House was put forth by the chairman of MIT’s Centre for Real Estate, Mr. Tony Chiochetti after he saw a group of 4 people living in a small mud shelter in a backward zone of India because a major section of the inhabitants of the world have alarming household needs.

This house is the first archetype of this kind and is built in Mianyang in China. The design integrates void brick walls, steel bars for corroboration, fundamental yard space. It can also withstand an earthquake of richter magnitude of 8.0. The house is spacious enough, around 500 square feet, and now houses are built as big as 800 square feet in the range of $1000. This is in need the price of a second hand car. The same project is to begin in the USA with a project value of 10K houses , to design affordable houses that can withstand the disaster situations.

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