Full home unfolds in 1-hour, kitchen & bathroom included

[Music] look at that i mean frankly that looks more like it more like an iphone packaging than a than a house is that how you expect your house to arrive frankly i think it looks more like a an iphone unboxing here this is the boxable casita it is a 20 by 20 room module that can be deployed and set up in less than an hour if you look at modern building construction it's really not modern at all mostly it's guys using hand tools building one at a time on site and the cool thing is when this unfolds from the eight and a half footprint it's done not including the couch and the bed those you'll have to bring in after but this kitchen bathroom electrical flooring hvac everything is done in the factory so that means super easy install on site they can be deployed in a permanent manner or they can be pulled up and brought somewhere else later on there's a bunch of different reasons why building construction is not compatible with the factory the first big one is the shipping caliano what are you doing all right here we go you think this can tell the impossible it's not rated to no not at all houses are very big it's not cost effective to ship them one of the big problems with modular construction is they're too big to ship so if you look at this this is one of our units it's actually folded up to eight and a half feet wide and then it unfolds to the big 20-foot building everything we're doing here is to try to engineer a standardized product that can be customized out in the field and gives builders the ability to build custom homes while still being able to take advantage of factory efficiencies that we get by building standardized products with repeatability so i know you look pretty tough you know i think if you can move this wall maybe just the one finger i'm thinking [Laughter] oh that's great now these may look just like a regular house but what you don't see is all the technology that's going on behind the walls [Music] we have really engineered these for mass production and they're not typical stick frame [Music] we are just finishing up construction on these three of our smallest room module sizes these are finished as accessory dwelling units so here you see a nice big opening it's going to end up as a glass sliding door we will be sending them to the backyard of some homes probably in los angeles where they have a serious housing affordability issues if you see this white seam right here that's actually where this whole unit 20 feet folds down into eight and a half feet wide so these actually ship completely finished like this they fold up in a half wide with five feet of empty space inside where we house this kitchen bathroom stuff here basically what happens is the roof pulls back in three pieces these walls fold in and then this whole floor section uh folds up you can actually see a hinge point here and so this whole wall would uh fold in here so here you can see there's a hinge and then this wall folds in but the beauty of it is right here from this side over you have a kitchen bathroom now that's all done in the factory because even though we are folding up the building we're not folding up everything we still have about six feet by the length of the unit that doesn't fold and that's where we're able to finish stuff in the factory so very important because then we're able to fully finish everything before it arrives on site there we go get to work just don't just don't crash it into the other house [Laughter] so all the empty space folded up all the finished space unfolded uncompressed so that we can finish that in the factory [Music] so 40 foot long 20 foot wide one room or multiple rooms or half a room i'm here with kyle and paulo in our first generation boxable prototype what do you guys think it's pretty awesome we have a long way to go what we've done is we've created a whole new building system that is designed for mass production automation so that includes all new materials in building the wall [Applause] basically it's steel eps foam and concrete there's actually almost no lumber in the entire unit this is the front wall going up for the first time i think maybe the second time faceless wall doesn't have any windows the doors cut out yet so today we've got the folding walls on look at that it's got the folding wall on and over here kyle's going to come over with his little finger and move the wall that's how easy they move we're just experimenting with different latches to secure our panels together this galvanized steel very very strong and you can see the two interlocks here that show how that will over center on that and snap past rather and it's the first time we're doing it now let's see how these two panels snap together oh that's amazing the panels were snapped together how perfect does that seem that would be the exterior of the house it would be painted as an exterior and these are the panels coming together and from the inside here comes the inside wall and standing in a boxable space for the first time that's where the kitchen's going to go that's the bathroom all four sides and we're going to cut the windows out now that long roll and everything we've done is to reinvent the room module and the housing system so that it can be compatible with that level of factory automation and robotics thank you thank you [Music] so uh the most important piece of equipment we have for the factory is our vacuum lamination system it's about 100 feet long and it's going to be placed right here uh two of them actually one in between uh these three pillars and one in between those three pillars over there so that's the most uh important and unique piece of equipment we have because we're not using the lumber framing to build the houses we have a totally different system this is a sectional manifold system okay there are two rumors each one of those guys right so vacuum lamination is essentially it's a large conveyor table where the sub components are laid up into the wall panel over that conveyor table glue heads apply adhesive and then it gets fed into a vacuum lamination system that's actually stacked four stories high so that it can have a continuous feeding after that the panels will be pulled out and they'll go through the various finishing stations so painting window install electrical just to totally finish the wall panels then eventually they'll be assembled into the complete buildings and then the kitchen bathroom will be added to those buildings and actually this unit will be stacked with that unit to create a two-story [Applause] we like to think of these as a universal building box [Music] all right now we're going to take this one here put it on top of that one at night we plan to manufacture these in three sizes so our plant three size room modules will be 20 feet by 20 feet 20 feet by 30 feet and 20 feet by 40 feet and then they will all connect together stack a range combined to build anything wow here we go i love it you know secretary clarkson awesome it comes and it's folded and you just unfold and then stabilize tilt tilt out and we're selling these for forty nine thousand dollars anywhere with the international that include the refrigerator and the stone yeah absolutely it includes everything it does not include caroline it does include full-size fridge the lamp is included of course washers and food washer dryer absolutely and the customer just needs to bring their pad and their hookups hook it up and they're living you have the possibility of putting different types of facade on the outside yeah when these unpack they're completely finished so that means to dial in the architectural style and so they can put on you know wood veneer finishes so the plan for us is mass production standardization repeatability uh if you have an efficient factory you really just want the same thing rolling off the assembly line every time however you can customize these on site anything from adding exterior cladding or even you know cutting cutting big holes in the wall so the current boxable version that you're looking at here does actually need heavy equipment to unpack and set up so that can be a crane or a telehandler however we've spent a lot of time trying to eliminate this heavy equipment because of course it adds cost and the goal here is housing affordability we also have a planned wheel system kind of like a caster system so that you could actually take it off the truck drag it into place unfold it do the whole setup without any heavy equipment so what we're really providing here is a architecturally neutral universal building box where 90 of the hard work is done for the builder developer before they arrive you

Channel: Kirsten Dirksen

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Keywords: boxabl, unfoldable house, unfolding house, foldable house, house as a box, box house, instant house, prefab house, mass produced housing, 49k house, small house, house kit, unfolding house kit, las vegas, home production, affordable house, turnkey home, boxabl casita, factory produced housing, Galiano Tiramani, paolo tiramani, adu, accessory dwelling unit

Id: _W2YDxVi02I

Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Fri May 28 2021

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[u/lazy2late]

i just saw more Boxabl news this week but i shared this link from 28 may because it has the best footage of the pre-fabricated home being unfolded and final assembly. please delete if this is repost

[u/BENshakalaka]

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