Vika One is a $38,000 Foldable Tiny Home That Can Be Moved From One Location to Another
With rising home prices, tiny houses are becoming an affordable alternative. As the housing crisis continues to spiral out of control, prefab companies are springing up all over the country. Several companies are in a race to get a slice of the burgeoning market of tiny prefabricated homes. Los Angeles based Vika has created a tiny home that folds and can be relocated anywhere to provide shelter when needed.
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Now this is a housing solution that will undoubtedly take off. Most tiny homes or prefab homes are built on a fixed concrete foundation and remain in the same location permanently but the Vika One prefab is an entirely different tiny home with the name itself meaning to fold. It can be folded, transported and deployed over and over again. It’s a flexible living solution that offers up to 144-sq.ft. open floor plan with a living area, a bed that converts into seating, and a table that folds into the wall. What’s even more astounding, is the Vika One has a full kitchen and a bathroom large enough for two people to shower at the same time.
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Surprisingly, everything mentioned above from fixtures, furnishing and fittings can be folded up into a 4 feet x 12 feet package for transport. That means up to six of these Vika One homes can fit on a flat bed trailer which not only saves on transportation costs but allows multiple homes to be set up in a location quickly and efficiently.
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The homes are assembled in the Vika’s Los Angeles factory before being folded up, loaded onto a truck and transported to site. Upon arriving at its desired location, the folded home is forklifted off the trailer and unfolded. The entire setup process takes less than two hours to complete including connections to local utility.
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The Vika One home has a projected lifespan of 15 years and will cost from $38,000 for a standard unit with upgraded units which include off-grid solar panels and batteries costing as much as $46,000. The cost of delivery and installation is not included in the above prices.
Vika One is not the only prefab home on the market. As mentioned above many companies are getting into this space as a result of the housing crisis. Other prefab designs competing with the Vika One include Jupe by Spacecube, Breathe Architecture’s tiny home and many others both foreign and domestic.
