NEW YORK: 52-year-old entrepreneur Barry Jackson might have come up with a low cost housing solution.
His design, named HiveHaus, is made up from hexagonal rooms, each 100 square-feet, and can be erected in four or five days by a small team of builders without the need for foundations. What’s more, a three-unit Hivehaus reportedly costs as little as $86,000, offering a unique way of getting people on to the property ladder.
Jackson is currently looking to produce the units on a larger scale, stating that they could also be used as homes for the elderly, as holiday rental units, or simply as a studio in a back garden…
