Have a peek at Michael Jantzen's timeless M-House

Date
25 November 2014

Having only once covered the work of Californian architect Michael Jantzen on the site, it seems about time we provided a little more context to his work and showed off one of his seminal pieces. The M-House is a portable modular system through which multiple iterations of a structure can be made. It consists of a series of rectangular panels, attached by hinges to a gridded frame, that can be moved and manipulated to serve a variety of functions, both structural and decorative. Each new structure can be built to unique specifications so that no M-House needs to look the same. Michael’s intention was that these buildings could serve as a holiday home or as an impressive complex of modular retreats in a single resort. So why hasn’t anyone built this resort yet? Better than Butlins.

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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Michael Jantzen: M-House

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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