Ten years ago Kamal Kadhar began dreaming about a home that could be easily transported around the world and could unfold upon delivery in just an hour with fridge, beds, sinks included, ready for overnights. Using 8 years worth of earnings as an Uber driver, Kamal built a container-sized home (7.5 feet by 24 feet) that can be pulled the back of a 4×4 and comes with 5-foot leg jacks so no forklift or crane is needed.
He began building his first prototype outside in a field outside the southern Indian city of Tiruchirappalli. Not wanting to add complications for those wishing to deploy their home in remote locations, Kadhar relied on mechanical winches for unfolding the home (though electric gearboxes can be added) and avoided any type of hydraulics or machinery that can't be easily fixed by an amateur.
In fact, Kadhar says his entire home can be built from the frame (that he can provide) by amateur building enthusiasts just as he was a decade ago. He grew up tinkering with metal in his father's scrap metal shop, but had little experience until he began watching Youtube videos and apprenticing with local builders in London where he lives and drives his Uber vehicle 12 hour days. He says he's gotten encouragement for his expandable home, which he calls Octopouse (inspired by his love of octopi), from his passengers. He's driven 35,000 passengers from 135 countries and even gotten advice from architects along the way.
The Octopouse is furnished with a full kitchen, that pivots into position within seconds, and comes fully plumbed and electrified. There's also a Murphy bed in one wall, plus a toilet and shower (the bathroom doesn't unfold). Kadhar hopes to offer frames for sale for around $50,000 with the price to drop with economies of scale.
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Very cool!
WOW!!
I hope this takes him to successes that he never dreamed possible!
Wonderfully designed units!
This is genius, Australian Farmers and people living in rural property here would definitely buy these considering the harsh Australian climate and Bushfire prone areas. Great work my friend. From Sydney Australia. Even as a guest homestead on large farms and mining corporations.
His product looks better than those Boxable guys’. May Kamal have much success! I would have been interested to know how water, sewer, and electricity connects.
wow! how much? price?
House is interesting. What can be done with the contents when you have to fast fold it.
That’s amazing and a labour of love. Well done.
Genius! I love it very much ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️
Incredible
This man just changed the world 🌎
this man really thought ‘outside the box’- amazing!
Beefy looking build
Please can you provide us with the info about from where to buy it? I need the link to buy.
Now that’s some good work
This is awesome👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Its really happy to see the final stage of this project, i know him personally since last 7 years, He never give up and made it. A big Hands to mr. Kamal bro, and thanks to the channel
Share ur thoughts of advantages and disadvantages
Definitely he willl sort ot out
And myself personally requested to the viewers for supporting Sponsors or Buyers to make this project successfully
Lets part of it cheer up……
Had to watch a couple of times. This is amazing. The shipping container looks like it is 20 feet. The fact that it can be lifted up to 5 feet is also a good feature. Especially in flood-prone areas or very irregular ground. At $50k US, this appears to be affordable. The interior looks very modern.
Awesome design work!
Well that was awesome! 🙂
This is really well done, I’d love to see more layout variations in the future.. hopefully he could expand the business to multiple countries, best of luck 👍