Jupe is a flat-packed dwelling unit inspired by the stars, designed for new frontiers beyond the city and off the grid. Made by Tesla and SpaceX folks, Jupes drop in an hour, ready to rent and permits are rarely necessary. See maker's post below. Inquire.
@chrismessina thanks for the hunt! We're innovating towards a new sort of flexible housing model that is light on the land and will set up anywhere. Relative to the time and money spent setting up an off-grid system, bed and bedding, foundation, porch, utility connections, and the rest Jupe lands about right. I'd invite you over to SoMa to check out the one I'm living in for the next week or so!
@chrismessina pricey if you're looking at it like a tent, not at all pricey if you're considering it a tiny home - I'd argue it's much closer to the latter (and you can put a hard top on top). And standard glamping tents can cost ~$8k+ and then you have to build a platform for them, they don't include solar power, and can't move them around easily. Jupes can be set up and taken down in <45 min and leave no trace on the land.
@chrismessina@gillianim A tiny home w/o water or bathroom? No trace seems impossible for something with a solid base being transported by truck to a site. It's a cool af design but I can't see those claims as reasonable.
Why Jupe?
Iāve dreamed of going to space since I was a child. Who hasnāt? With all the talk of flying to space for a few weightless minutes, I sought to build something for those of us not going to Mars.
I love to imagine that Jupeās blueprint originated from some extragalactic signal we intercepted by some stroke of good fortune. But, in reality, we never needed a divine signal. The motivations were staring us in the face, every day, on Earth. Oceans are rising. Mountains are burning. People are being displaced. Beyond involuntary evacuation, a surge of the population began migrating away from the city, a trend amplified by the pandemic. We need a flexible hospitality system more than ever. Jupe answers this call, and it answers it in style.
Jupes are designed to house the world in dignified, adaptable, moveable shelter that gives people a true sense of community. Weāve brought together a design team from Tesla and SpaceX to create a new category of housing for the future, on earth and beyond.
While I was an environmental science associate professor, I lived in a 6 x 5.5ft (33 sq ft) dumpster for a year to explore what is essential and not in a shelter. I went on to build Kasita, an award winning tiny home that was featured in the Atlantic, NYT, and others, and built 15 units of those gorgeous tiny luxury homes. But I realized we werenāt thinking big enough.
So Jupe builds on decades of experimenting with housing design. The big (and patent pending) innovation is to design a chassis that contains all the essentials of a house in the foundation: power, storage, comfortable rest space, and waste disposal. Weāre working on integrating plumbing in future units as well.
Weāve built 25 Jupes so far this year and are shipping more every week. You can find them throughout California and Colorado, and soon all over the world.
Just like a car chassis, you can vary what you put on top - from the canvas and aluminum tent structures we have now to a hard top with whatever degree of luxury (and insulation) you might desire.
And you can fit 15 of these chasses on a flatbed truck and move them wherever you need them - setting up and packing down the entire truck in a day. From pop up housing for a festival to relief housing after a natural disaster, Jupes provide a lightning fast alternative to any other kind of housing stock.
Per first principles we are doing something incredibly hard but not beyond the laws of physics. A nimble and roaming living platform on a few trucks, never harming the Earth (or its lungs) and allowing humans to live where they want, how they want, for as long as they want. Thatās difficult - making it off grid is nearly impossible. But we need a solution to adapt to the coming climate crisis. For those of us not going to Mars, letās make a good case for Earth.
Jeff's made beautiful, portable, and affordable homes with Jupe. Warning: he's going to trick you all into staying in them on vacation. You'll then go "home" to your basic house and miss your spaceship;)
I really love this. I'm curious how you landed on the current cost. I feel like it's a good deal but would love a breakdown.
Congrats ?makers! Now if you excuse me, I'll be searching for some land.
@gabe__perez thanks for the insightful question! For starters, there's a lot 'in the box' - we have a built in foundation (so you don't have to pour one), a bed/headboard/mattress, two 200 Ah batteries and four 100w solar panels and an inverter, the top mast structure and soft good roof, and the BFP - big f'n porch - ALL of this comes flat packed in the Jupe. So, in the end, we're put all of this together and added a margin and there you go!
What's impressed me most about the Jupe team is the execution: from Jeff's first sketches of this idea, to selling the prototype, to manufacturing dozens of units that are already in the wild - this may be one of the fastest-producing hardware (much less housing) companies in history. I can't wait to see where Jupe is next year - to the moons!
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