Japanese Post-Disaster House Can Spring Into Shape In Under Five Minutes [Video]

We’ve seen many post-apocalyptic housing concepts before, but none were quite as, well, realistic as the Japanese EDV-01. Daiwa House is basically producing these houses, that may spring up into mobile-houses with the frenzy of a button.

They’re small even by Japanese standards, at 6m x 2.5m x 2.4m, but pretty sturdy, weighing 10 tons. It’d take plenty to push one over, but apparently they’re designed to be mobile and could house more than one people fairly comfortably with a rest room, kitchen, beds, and satellite connectivity in case the phone networks die.

There are also fuel cells and batteries along side solar panels, to properly escape the grid-whether it’s through choice or otherwise. [ EDV-01 via Wired Italy ]

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