Mobile, modular houses: What if you could just add an extra room when you need more space?

Proto-habitat is a flexible eco-friendly house, easily dismantled in five days. Photo: AFP

Imagine an expandable house, to which you could easily add an extra room, or even several ones.

No need to turn your office space into a nursery. It would be quite a good way to avoid the stress of moving, especially if the building was eco-friendly.

Does it sound like a concept out of the distant future? Not as much as you might think, since these types of new nomadic dwellings are seeing the light of day in France and worldwide.