One Austin, Texas, startup has a bold vision for the future of tiny homes Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we'll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month?s location" A tiny prefab billed as the ?iPhone for housing.?
In recent years and against the backdrop of an ongoing affordable-housing crisis, tiny houses have become a popular lifestyle alternative and perhaps an even bigger internet fascination. But if you really want to see how much further tiny houses can go?and how they might engage urban housing on a larger scale?you?ve got to look at what?s happening in Austin, Texas, where local startup Kasita is designing and engineering the micro home of the future. The origin of Kasita (the name is a play on casita, the Spanish word for ?small house?) goes back to a viral story in 2014, in which an Austin-based ?Professor Dumpster? made his name by, well, living in a 33-square-foot waste receptacle. While that experience lasted ?only? a year, it spurred Professor Dumpster?real name Jeff Wilson?to explore the full potential of small living.

Kasita

Four years later, Wilson?s answer is what you see here: a 352-square-foot prefab micro dwelling with sleek metallic siding that hints at just how futuristic the pad ...