SunPod, a factory built off-grid building by the automotive industry
Five reasons why houses should be built by car manufacturers;
- Cars are built to higher standards than most houses
- Perpetually advancing emerging technologies
- Uninterrupted automated assembly processes.
- Integrated global logistical distribution network and retail outlets
- Contemporary products for contemporary lifestyles
Good for business;
Offers natural diversification for auto industry with a zero emission product into a business sector overdue for disruption. Offers existing auto customers a contemporary lifestyle product, an alternative to existing housing industry pastiche solutions. Offers growth opportunities in existing supply chains and diversification in to new supply chains.
Future Housing Evolution
- fossil-fuel-free
- off-grid
- harvests own water
- manages own waste
- independent of public utilities
- naturally ventilated
- naturally heated
A factory built building, mass produced, portable, transportable on the back of a lorry, ever evolving design solutions, precision engineered, identifiable and accessible chain of custody, product support and accountability all tenets absent at-large from the present housing solution.
Variations On A Theme
‘SunPod Modular’ can be extended, terraced, stacked multi-storey, could offer standalone accommodation in the aftermath of natural disasters.