The Big World Homes project aims to be a new model of affordable housing, and its modular mobile design could make it a good fit for ‘pop-up’ communities on unused land. Australia’s Big World Homes, led by architect Alexander Symes, is taking on expensive city housing with its design for tiny modular homes that are shipped flat-packed, and can be set up in just a few days, with no other tools than a drill and…
Tiny flat-packed off-grid homes aim to be bridge between renting and owning
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