Kit Home That Sat Alongside Opera House For Sale |
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Written by Marc Pallisco
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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It sat alongside Sydney's Opera House for a month, and now it can be yours - as long as you pay to relocate it.
The design that funked up the concept of the "pre-fab home" is for sale by auction. e-BODE, a prototype built for the Houses of the Future exhibition in 2004, was later displayed on the Opera House forecourt then moved to Sydney's Olympic Park.
The 51-square-metre house - about the size of most one-bedroom apartments - includes a wealth of built-in sustainable initiatives including "Water Hog" tanks within the floor structure and a 5000-litre slimline corrugated steel water tank.
The environmentally friendly pre-fabricated houses are built in Albury through Modabode, the brainchild of Sydney architects Sarah Bickford and Paul Lucas.
Features include a lightweight steel shell, separate oversailing roof, louvre windows and cross-ventilation, insulation, rainwater tanks and AAA-rated taps. Tony Lewis of Jurd's Real Estate expects the house to sell for about $70,000.
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