Getting the maximum possible use from a minimum amount of space is the key to living in Tokyo, so this tiny house uses an ingenious stacked box construction that creates its own storage space.
Here's where all the cool kids will be living after the upcoming mega-disaster in 2012. Folded up, it's a flat, relatively lightweight and easily transported object, but unfolded, it offers much-needed emergency shelter with 26 square feet of floor space. Could this be the très chic house of the future?