Dive Brief:
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Students and professors at a Georgia design school have taken the concept of “microhousing” even smaller: They propose building homes as small as parking spaces—and building them in parking garages.
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The group from Savannah College of Art and Design has designed and built three 135-square-foot houses, each big enough for a bed, a tiny kitchen, and a bathroom that are also small enough to fit into a single parking space.
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They call it the SCADPad (SCAD is the abbreviation for the college’s name), and propose that developers convert old, unused parking garages into communities of tiny houses rather than tearing them down.
Dive Insight:
The students discovered that the U.S. is home to five times as many parking spaces as cars. But they proposed that the ultra-small homes, which cost about $40,000 each to build, could solve affordable housing shortages in less developed countries as well.