From Tobias Katz
The Calico Home is designed to grow. Built as an efficiency unit, this 160 square foot container home was created to inspire a new generation of homeowners to think small (and in stages). Due to its stature and mobile features, the home is designed to scale from one to three units based on the owners needs.
Defined as a prototype modular home, the Calico can grow as an owners needs do. With its flexible design the home can add in supplemental living space, a larger kitchen or bathroom, or can even be scaled to support office spaces or a retail component. With a kinetic lifetime in mind, the home will allow users the freedom to scale responsibly and at a price point accessible to a diverse customer base.
The home was designed and constructed as an industrial design senior thesis - turned startup. Built by Tobias Katz, the Calico Home was created as a student housing alternative by allowing students to construct their own living space in school with a build to own model. For the prototype, Katz raised over 30k through in-kind material donations from 22 corporate sponsors worldwide.
Currently Katz is working with his newly founded company Katz Box, LLC to create unique projects in the Midwest region with the hope to bring their units to mass market in the future.