The home that takes SIX hours to build: Flat pack family house costing £25,000 can be collapsed and moved to a new location and is even earthquake proof

• Photos show components of flat pack M.A.Di Home being produced in factory in Italy and assembled on site
• Assembly takes three people six hours, and involves modules being unfolded before rooms are are added
• Innovative home, created by Italian architect Renato Vidal, is earthquake proof and has eco-friendly features
• Comes in a variety of sizes, ranging from a 290 sq ft home for £24,800 to a 904 sq ft family home for £54,900

This is the innovative flat pack folding home which costs just £24,800, takes only six hours to build and can be collapsed and moved to a new location.

Photos show components of the M.A.Di Home being produced in a factory in Italy, transported by truck and being unfolded and easily assembled on site.

Time-lapse photos show the modern earthquake-proof home being transformed into the final product, complete with windows and doors. Interior images show the sleek design which boasts plenty of open plan living space in the eye-catching a-frame house.

A team of three people can assemble the house in just six to seven hours with prices ranging from £24,800 for 290 sq ft and £54,900 for 904 sq ft. 

This £24.8K flat pack folding home takes just SIX HOURS to build

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Photos have emerged of an innovative flat pack folding home which could be yours from just £24,800 and takes only six hours to build

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Photos show components of the flat pack M.A.Di Home being produced in a factory in Italy, transported by truck to its new location and being unfolded and easily assembled on site

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Interior images show the sleek design which boasts plenty of open plan living space in the eye-catching a-frame house

The M.A.Di Home was created by Italian architect, Renato Vidal. It is earthquake resilient and has the eco-friendly capacity to become completely off-grid with solar panels, LED lighting and rain water systems. The home can be built at any location without the need for it to be constructed on concrete foundations. 

The assembly process takes a team of three people just six to seven hours, and involves each module being unfolded before roof pitches, interiors walls and flooring are added.

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Time-lapse footage shows the modern prefab home being transformed into the final product, complete with windows and doors

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The M.A.Di Home was created by Italian architect, Renato Vidal. It is earthquake resilient and has the eco-friendly capacity to become completely off-grid with solar panels, LED lighting and rain water systems

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The home can be built at any location without the need for it to be constructed on concrete foundations

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The assembly process takes a team of three people just six to seven hours, and involves each module being unfolded before roof pitches, interiors walls and flooring are added

It comes in a variety of sizes, ranging from a 290 sq ft tiny home with a one-stage staircase for £24,800 to a 904 sq ft family home with a two-stage staircase which will set you back £54,900.

All basic models include a fitted bathroom, kitchen connections and technical installations, and will be delivered 60-days from the acceptance of final drawings.

The M.A.Di Home is completely manufactured in Italy and can be easily collapsed and moved to a new location or stored away.

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It comes in a variety of sizes, ranging from a 290-square-foot tiny home with a one-stage staircase for £24,800 to a 904 sq ft family home with a two-stage staircase which will set you back £54,900

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All basic models include a fitted bathroom, kitchen connections and technical installations, and will be delivered 60-days from the acceptance of final drawings

The interactive map that shows how YOUR city will be hit by climate change: NASA project reveals what the melting of Earth's ice sheets will really mean

• Tool relies on ‘sea-level fingerprints,’ accounting for the non-uniform pattern of sea level change globally
• The map shows affects on nearly 300 cities, revealing the impact of different ice sheets on different areas 
• Melting of the western Greenland Ice sheet would affect London, while the northeast would affect New York
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A team of NASA scientists has developed an interactive tool to reveal how the melting of Earth’s ice sheets could affect cities around the world.

The tool relies on ‘sea-level fingerprints,’ accounting for the non-uniform pattern of sea level change to reveal the potential impacts on 293 major cities.

And, the map reveals one ice sheet could have vastly different effects on certain areas of the world, depending on which part melts.

Click and drag the map to see how different areas of the world are affected

The tool relies on ‘sea-level fingerprints,’ accounting for the non-uniform pattern of sea level change to reveal the potential impacts on 293 major cities. The phenomenon alters Earth’s gravity field, and the elastic deformation of the solid Earth, the researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab explain

HOW TO USE IT 

In the Controls section of the tool, choose the local city you wish to view.

Then, select the result you want to see: Gradient Fingerprint, Ice Thickness Change, or the Local Sea Level Contribution.

The results will then show up automatically on the map.

You can also look at the contribution of a specific basin to local sea levels for the given city. If the western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, for example, London would see significant effects.

But, if the northeastern side were instead to melt, New York would feel the impact.

As ice sheets and glaciers melt, sea level rise around the world is not uniform.

The phenomenon alters Earth’s gravity field, and the elastic deformation of the solid Earth, the researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab explain.

This causes patterns that vary across the globe.

The tool, called Gradient Fingerprint Mapping (GFM) shows how locations of the Antarctic and Greenland drainage systems affect local sea level rise predictions.

‘We exploit an advanced mathematical property of adjoint systems and determine the exact gradient of sea-level fingerprints with respect to local variations in the ice thickness of all of the world’s ice drainage systems,’ the researchers explain in the study published to Science Advances.

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The map reveals one ice sheet could have vastly different effects on certain areas of the world, depending on which part melts. If the western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, for example, London would see significant effects. But, if the northeastern side were instead to melt, New York would feel the impact

NASA reveals tool to see cities will be hit by climate change

For the southern hemisphere, the researchers say parts of the Antarctic ice sheet could dramatically affect Sydney, Australia.

As Earth’s conditions continue to change, the experts say the tool can be modified for more accurate predictions.

In a study published this past September, scientists revealed they’d directly observed sea level fingerprints for the first time. 

'Scientists have a solid understanding of the physics of sea level fingerprints, but we’ve never had a direct detection of the phenomenon until now,' said co-author of the study Dr Isabella Velicogna, UCI professor of Earth system science and JPL research scientist, at the time.

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The gradient of sea level rise near New York City with respect to ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is shown. Red indicates a larger impact on NYC local sea level rise, with the melting of the northeast portion of the sheet

WHAT ARE SEA LEVEL FINGERPRINTS? 

Sea level 'fingerprints,' are patterns of sea level variability around the world resulting from changes in water storage on Earth's continents and in the mass of ice sheets. 

As ice sheets and glaciers undergo climate-related melting, they change the Earth's gravity field, leading to sea level changes that are not uniform around the planet. 

For example, when a glacier melts and loses ice mass, its gravitational attraction is reduced. 

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Sea level rise fingerprints calculated from observations of mass changes in Greenland, Antarctica, continental glaciers and ice caps, and land water storage made by the GRACE satellites, between January 2003 to April 2014

As such, ocean waters nearby move away, causing sea level to rise faster far away from the glacier. 

This resulting pattern in sea level change is known as a sea level fingerprint - and certain areas, particularly in Earth's middle and low latitudes, are hit even harder, and Greenland and Antarctica contribute differently to the process.

For example, sea level rise in California and Florida caused by the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet is up to 52 per cent greater than its average effect on the rest of the world.To calculate sea level fingerprints associated with melting ice sheets, glaciers and changes in land water storage, the team used gravity data collected by the twin satellites of the US/German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) between April 2002 and October 2014.

During that 12-year period, the loss of mass from land ice and from changes in land water storage increased global average sea level by approximately 0.07 inches (1.8 millimeters) per year.

About 43 per cent of the increased water mass came from Greenland, 16 per cent from Antarctica and 30 per cent from mountain glaciers.

The researchers verified their calculations using reading of ocean-bottom pressure from stations in the tropics.