Push Button House

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• Posted 07/01/11 by Daniel Hennessy
  I dream about building a shipping container house every night. I think they are a testament to what greatness the human mind can envision, unlike this documentary, which is a bunch of art sissy nonsense. No wonder we almost lost the entire economy to housing fraud.
• Posted 06/27/11 by Yamary
  Finally! This is just what I was lkioong for.
• Posted 12/04/10 by larry
  EGOS AND BULL####!
• Posted 11/02/10 by Justin
  What is the white stuff that everything was coated in? Looks like some sort of epoxy resin but I don't know the name or even where to get some?
• Posted 04/12/10 by Kenne
  WHATS THE POINT? Completly useless. I think the man has had way to much crack!
• Posted 02/09/10 by Utz B.
  Behold the genius that is the Pop-Button House. One button, could not be simpler, right? Normally it takes WEEKS of BACK-BREAKING LABOR to build an excellent house, but this is only 90 SECONDS and takes only AN ERG OR TWO of energy to build (with one fingertip). Come on you haters. Who would refuse such a house? It's also modestly priced, only about $175,000. You only need a roof, and for that any old barn or shed will do. If you are a coffee lover, this is obviously the house of your dreams. The bed is hard like concrete, but it is not for sleeping -- it's a house of coffee, after all! Multiple espresso makers can handle a large crowd of people, which is why the house expands, to hold so many multitudes of caffeinated humans. They're not high on life! They're high on caffeine and probably a little bit of high-quality blow, judging by that crowd. It's a triumph of efficiency and clean design. The genius who created this is to be saluted. He deserves the Pritzker. Thank god for him, because he really shows the rest of us the way. All you haters only dream of having one-one-thousandth of the talent this man has in his tiniest toe. Bravo, Push Button House! Bravo, humanity!
• Posted 12/13/09 by Howie J
  I expected to watch something interesting and relevant. This is just some goofball art. Admittedly I got bored with the beginning of the film as I was waiting to be shown the relevance part, it never seemed to occur. I skipped to the end in hopes of seeing something interesting, but alas that did not occur either.
• Posted 11/18/09 by cyberfunk
  Well, it's not a house. It doesn't have a roof on it. It's just an expensive art piece without any practical use.
• Posted 11/13/09 by waste
  What a tool. He manages to insult painters and people who run businesses to claim what he does is unique and important: I guess everyone's an idiot who doesn't spend their time making a pop-open container to pimp overpriced caffeine water. The end product doesn't take any advantage of the low-cost, high-strength modular nature of the shipping container. Worst of all, he whole misadventure is essentially the creation of a faux recycling and utility that, if widely known, has the potential to make the work of those building actual container dwellings and offices seem as trivial as this lame cappuccino shack.
• Posted 10/18/09 by growth
  looks and sounds like one of the rich, detached from reality, individuals from Jamie Johnson's "Born Rich" what a huge waste of time. Who doesn't know what transformers are? Really? c'mon
• Posted 10/13/09 by Steve
  I thought this was going to be some kind of revolutionary design that would help the poor and give people shelter in disasters. Boy was I wrong. Art for the sake of art is fine when artists them selfs create, but getting a bunch of people on this? What a colossal waist of time and resource.
• Posted 09/24/09 by seth harland
  they are called glow sticks Dumbass. Metal is hot! should use some insulation!
• Posted 09/24/09 by occupant
  Performance art? Maybe. "House"? Not so much. More a large-scale jewelry box with some late-60's interior-design sensibilities plugged in. Or shippable kinetic sculpture. Calling it a "house" is an insult to domestic architecture. And the "engineering" involved appears to be mainly figuring out hydraulics, hinging and folded parts interlock, all for what appears to be, primarily, visual effect. AnD the film doesn't deliver on its hype. Meh. It's what happens when artists/designers start believing their own bull####. Rick called it; a waste of money and opportunity.
• Posted 09/22/09 by mlm
  Here's a tip, if you are going to make a documentary about a house - how about showing the House!? I realize the movie is mainly about the process that the man went through to conceive the thing, but we only get a few artsy close ups of the finished product.
• Posted 09/22/09 by Rick
  This is a stunt...self indulgent crap, a waste of money and opportunity. Nothing was practical or "real world". I'd like the engineer to spend a night on that plastic box used as a bed.
• Posted 09/22/09 by ohplease
  How dare he create art? How dare he?!? Especially art I don't like/can't understand/isn't to my taste!?! Stop making art!!!
• Posted 09/22/09 by Allie
  so, do you have a second one to put on top? What keeps the weather/bugs/badguy out? What about heat/cooling/PLUMBING? Oh, and boy o boy does that bed look comfy... NOT!
• Posted 09/21/09 by Jeremy Michael
  It's called ART, guys. Get a clue.
• Posted 09/21/09 by Dan
  This guy needs the silver spoon jerked out of his mouth
• Posted 09/20/09 by Frank
  I must admit, I am somewaht confused. Tremendous idea, great apparent quality although, no full walls, roof or security. As best as I can tell, more like a heavy duty pop up camper. What are the associated cost?
• Posted 09/20/09 by Greg
  This is the most retarded concept ever. The "house" has no walls and no ceiling. The additional cost of the motors and hydraulics to make it open and close are just plain silly. What is this? A joke?
• Posted 09/19/09 by Otto
  Seems like alot of effort for nothing. What does one even do with it? Entertain rich friends within another warehouse-sized home?! Seems pretty pointless.
• Posted 09/18/09 by Lloyd S Harrison SR
  The recycling Container-Push Button House is an oppertunity to the the ailing housing industry, by assimilating usages of a very strong and re-usable item and these availabe excesses, should assist the maney who have been loosing their homes. Maney skilled unemployed has a chance to divert their skill to remake a strong and lasting habitat that will out perform and outlast wooden structures. Go-Green. Go-Container-Homes Leave trees to Grow. and Go Clean Air
• Posted 09/16/09 by Anita
  This is a good inspiration to others so they may come up with ideas to further portable storage container home concepts. The cheapest prices in the nation to purchase these containers can be found at www.boxt.com . You dont need to be an engineer.... just pencil down some of your ideas then submit them to an engineer/architect who can finalize your ideas to share or trademark. I've seen a lot of homes built out of containers but Id like to see more ideas like this on turning a single container into a home.
• Posted 09/16/09 by Charlie gosh
  You should watch this just to see what can be done when a new idea is turned into a reality. Could have been edited down to a shorter presentation. As shown, this concept home is not entirely practical, but documents a solid start toward (eventually) creating affordable, transportable, modifiable housing out of recycled materials. I want one! There is a crying need for artistry and inventiveness in architecture, and this fellow is helping to pave the way. I hope there are more of his kind.
• Posted 09/16/09 by Sharon
  Thanks for the site Phil. I have seen some housing in the past using cars & refrigerated cars (very energy efficient). I did not bother watching the video since it is rated 2 stars and the comments I read during the commercial.
• Posted 09/15/09 by Rob Gale
  That house looks more like a sunny afternoon picnic setup. Its got large areas of wall missing and more criticaly "No Roof !".... Why would anyone buy it ?.
• Posted 09/14/09 by Not Impressed
  Sorry - this does not impress me. There is nothing about this that has intrinsic worth except for the fact that someone was able to put together a full sized "Tonka" truck toy part that moves with hydraulics. Want to do something good? Make modular housing out of these things for low income families. Moveable offices for disaster relief. An energy efficient home that is easy to cool/heat because it is small. Major draw-back... The first time you open this thing in the rain/snow/wind/(fill in the blank)...
• Posted 09/08/09 by phil
  I just don't get how this is supposed to be impressive... It sums up everything that's wrong with gimmicky architecture / art stuff that tries to be oh so clever, however ultimately fails miserably at creating anything relevant to the field of architecture. seriously. someone explain this to me. i am an architect so feel free to go full blown nerd on me if it helps to illustrate the point. also, if you wanna see something that uses shipping containers but is still gimmicky yet an actual piece of architecture: http://www.archicentral.com/freitag-flagship-store-zurich-switzerland-4662/ cheerio P
• Posted 09/05/09 by Brian Houk
  The push button house? More like the push button espresso stand... I'm sorry, but to my way of thinking this is not creating art, it's birthing a monstrosity. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the field of hydraulics has seen far more wondrous and beautiful feats of engineering, on a regular basis, than this, indeed, works of art. The entire exercise smacks of the upper class congratulating themselves for being so clever. I am in fact disturbed by the amount of money and energy wasted in the birth of this Frankenstein's monster of a thing.