Tired of concrete tenements that kill the earth? Want a flexi-home that can expand and contract the way you want it too? It has actually become possible. If you do not believe it, a design for a shelter at El Salvador has actually come true.

Designed by Omar Rivas, the shelter is a set of concrete beams interspersed with flexible material that gives it a spring-like feel, that sit on a frame. The project is titled Accordion and is part of Guggenheim’s Design It shelter design competition and was submitted a month back.

The shelter can compress and also expand, in the forward and backward action at the same place. This is meant to generate more interior and exterior spaces in the same place without having to pay for the spaces accordingly.
Design innovation in housing is the need of the hour and with space constraints competing against the urge to do less damage to the environment, designs such as that of Omar Rivas fit the bill perfectly, in the basic architectural need for space utility.

Via: Guggenheim