Nasa contractors Cloud Architects unveil the orb, a space-age tiny home designed to withstand any climate that fits inside a shipping container
From the people who brought you Nasa’s Mars Ice Home – just 8-metres wide and built to reflect snow, rain and rotate to suit the weather and view, Cloud Architects’ spherical Double Ring House will go on sale within the next year and ships anywhere in the world
Tiny homes come in all kinds of unusual designs, from shipping containers to eggs, but an orb is still a rare occurrence.
New York City-based Cloud Architects is expanding the already out there world of tiny homes. The limited-edition spherical home will go on sale within the next year and ship anywhere in the world. The designers created it to fit within a standard shipping container.
The Double Ring House is on the larger side for what traditionally counts as a tiny home, but the 515-square-feet (48-square-metres) includes the loft space on the second floor. The sphere has a 26-foot (8-metre) diameter.
Cloud Architects, with founders Ostap Rudakevych and Masayuki Sono, is not new to making innovative and unusual designs. Their portfolio includes designs like the Hydrolander interplanetary vehicle concept, House 02 built into a hill, and the Mars Ice Home concept created in collaboration with Nasa. The Double Ring House, though, will be available for anyone to buy, as long as they’re still in stock.
The double ring name comes from the two round windows that take up much of the surface area of the exterior.
For this project, designers adjusted their normal method of study the location’s sun exposure, climate, topography and views. They wanted to make the home suitable for nearly any site.
