Portable Homestead House made of recycled steel for a grid-free living

Imagine that you make a perfect home setting and so very cozy but every time you have to leave it and go, your heart just aches. Now, you can celebrate. This is the Homestead House, an off-grid prefab concept made from recycled steel by designer Michael Jantzen. It uses prefabricated, commercially available steel which is cheap and also extremely modular. The best news? It is fully recyclable as it can be easily dismantled and resurrected back in another location.

It is also completely off-grid with photovoltaic solar panels and a small wind turbine. The climate is controlled via passive solar and the arches can collect rainwater which can be directed to above or below ground storage. Above ground storage would also be solar heated. Within the tough outer steel shell is another structure made of a lighter gauge material. The inner shell is insulated by ground up newspapers and magazines.




[Treehugger]