Casulo: Complete Furniture in a Crate
My self-diagnosed mild autistic tendencies cause me to find great delight in things that express order and uniformity. I suspect that's part of what makes me love LEGO as much as I do—clicking the elements together actually calms me down. As does making pixel art, sliding elements into a zoomed-in grid. I love things that stack or that have compartments. I love airline meals, not because of the taste, but because of the way each little slab of food fits into its tray, which in turn slides into a wheeled steam compartment, which in turn snaps into a locker. (It makes me wish my belly were filled with stacks of rectangular stomachs.) If I could, I would live in a sterile white room with no corners and compartments in which to stow every item.
(Or course I'd grow tired of that bubble room in short order. I also like dirty log cabins and Marshall stacks and human genitalia. But I can feel a part of my brain that finds a sense of order soothing.)
Point is, I squealed a little when I saw "Casulo"—a small crate filled with all the furniture one needs to live a modest life—unfolded by its designers in the video below. While it's an admirable bit of prototype engineering, like a thesis project for a Doctorate of Ikea, it's the clear tone its connotive portent sends ringing in my head that makes it most laudable. To be able to cast out all one's things, step into a pregnant room, and unfold a new home in a few minutes? That's a seductive fantasy.
Project Page [Mein-Casulo.de via Treehugger via Design Spotter]
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My wife and I are planning on moving from a 2-story house with 1/2 acre, full basement, shed, and 3-car garage into a loft downtown this year. It's a really interesting and gratifying experience to look at hundreds and hundreds of things and think "I don't need that. Goodbye!"
Something like this would be amazing .. if I could bring myself to have that little bit of stuff. But I'm not quite there yet. I need a couch. And a comfier chair. And a real closet. And... and...
Despite having moved three times in less than a year a couple years back (one of them being from a 2 br I had to myself to a 3 br I shared with two other guys) and having eliminated no less than a third of my belongings at that point, I seem to accumulate stuff; it's an inevitable side effect of my thrift fu. I know and agree with so many of the arguments for living more spartanly, but I don't seem to be constitutionally capable of divesting myself of material goods; I'm not quite zen enough. This would be better suited to my old roommate, who is constantly endeavouring to be as stripped down as he can be.
This is really quite exquisite. I'd actually love to see a company, either independent or one like IKEA, made a line of stuff meant to pack down together.
Could you imagine a setup where there is a standard box size that unfolds into a table or dresser or some other large element. Then, within that standard container you could pack a collection of other objects, each based off of subdivisions of the main box. Four 1/4 section objects. Or two 1/4 section objects and four 1/8 section objects. Wouldn't that be fantastic?
Something like this would make me incredibly happy. If you had a bed that did something similar, I wouldn't see any reason to have a place larger than a loft or a studio in an urban setting.
Next thing it needs: A kitchen in a crate. Assume a sink, fridge, and range/oven.
Oh man, i just got the shivers... I love it..
It should come in 3 options.
Hermit
Moderately Cool
RockStar
And the size of the box would go up accordingly.
hook me up.
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Yes, love the idea of the compartmentalized life!
Artist Andrea Zittel does some very interesting work in this area:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?slide=634&artindex=156
http://www.zittel.org/works/living_units/living_units_main.html
Ingenious and brilliant.
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Covet!
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*drool*
Solutions like these are exactly why I have an unhealthy obsession with compact living vs interior design.
Oh, and now I know why I reject any bag that doesn't have little compartments for everything. I simply can't stand one with a one-big-compartment-fits-all-complex. That together with a nitpicking mind when it comes to the design/style of bags makes it an neverending journey for perfection in my case.
That is very functional I would be curious how tall each object is like the stools and stuff as if they are too close to the ground they would (I would assume… be a pain in the butt to sit on and no even ceiling fan light I found. :D