First Prototype Built From MIT’s Effort to Construct Houses for $1,000 Each

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2011.  Home prices in many of the world’s most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot. By contrast, MIT architects have produced a decidedly more affordable alternative: the first prototype from the Institute’s “1K House”project, an effort to see if low-cost homes for the poor can be constructed for $1,000, total.

The prototype, called Pinwheel House, was designed by Ying chee Chui MArch ’11, a graduate of MIT’s Department…