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By: Make Green Work — Creatively Living with the Magic Box!

Make Green Work — Creatively Living with the Magic Box! — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:09:09 +0000

[...] Creatively Living with the Magic Box! – (inhabitat.com) “The Magic Box is an extension room that can be used as an office, studio or serve any purpose that the user imagines. Although it’s not know how sustainable it actually is, it’s certainly a creative approach to having an extra room in the back garden, rooftop, courtyard.“ [...]

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By: Robert Johnston

Robert Johnston — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:19:31 +0000

No cross ventilation, no privacy , insanely expensive glazing and too small to live in.

I must be missing something.

But what a pretty place to grow some ivy.

By: Catherine Todd

Catherine Todd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:45:55 +0000

Richie, I like your description and ideas. How do you know so much about the design / build process? I’ll check out the website you mention, and if you or anyone else has any more great ideas, please emaill me at ctodd1000@gmail (dot) com. I’m looking for prefab / green build ideas for beautiful houses in Guatemala, Lake Atitlan.

Thanks, Catherine Todd

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:02:15 +0000

Horrible.

Can we get some PRACTICAL designs, please?

By: djfred

djfred — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:18:41 +0000

Actually, Richie, it’s not a “concept”. It’s a real product thats being marketed and produced by Magic Box, Inc. The website is sketchy on hard details and shows the strain of being translated from Japanese but they seem to be involved in every stage of production from siting and design consultation to installation.
I guess you missed the hyperlink while everyone else was missing the point. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

http://www.magicboxincusa.com/aboutus.html

Thanks for the tips about the concretek and gunnite, though. Monolithically stong is always okay in my book.

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:54:30 +0000

It seems like the point is being missed here folks. Like ‘concept cars’… this is a ‘concept House’. Any carpenter can look at this and s how it could be built. It could be built even more strongly with (or search: Concretek.net) panels as the wall frames coated with sprayed on gunnite (concrete mix) inside and out. The gunnite sprayed Concretek panels would also be ‘monolithically’ strong. AND… if you combine 3, or more, of these modules together, with varying degrees of openings for more privacy… you’d have a pretty nice HOUSE !

Also… I really like the way that this design blurs the boundaries between ’sculpture’ and ’structures’(dwelling units). It’s like living inside of a really cool ’sculpture’. Nice going !

NICE design concept, ‘Magic Box,Inc.’ Wishing you much continued success.

By: oakling

oakling — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:55:01 +0000

Any purpose except for a bathroom, hopefully. Aw, a “tea ball” would be cute! I’d like to see it in recycled wood for that kind of purpose….

By: Jason Macosa

Jason Macosa — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:12 +0000

very nice, what is the costs per square foot, does anyone know?

By: simon

simon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:48:02 +0000

did someone say greenhouse?

By: Troy Lair

Troy Lair — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:17:30 +0000

I think this decorative box is a mighty nice looking roof top dream house/tree house of an effect piece of instrumentation that prolongs the child-like desires in all of us. Let’s face it, call your girlfriend, get those dolls out of storage, and have a TEA BALL!

By: Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:03 +0000

Interesting look. Not sure about using it as a seperate bedroom… :-)

By: Leo Mac Ender

Leo Mac Ender — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:05:10 +0000

Very, VERY good, ceep on the prize is comming. We need people like you now when we are starting our new business in Australia.
Senior Architect
Leo Mac Ender
lemak@telia.com