You’ve spent countless hours playing the beloved video game Tetris, twisting and rotating the varying tetriminos as they fell down your screens and fit into place. But, did you ever think that one day you could inhabit one of these idiosyncratic pieces?

Designed by Chinese Studio Liu Lubin, the modular “Micro-House” is built around the ability to shift, stack, and fit together individual units of dwelling, much like the pieces of Tetris. The units each focus on a single daily activity, such as resting, cooking, or working, and are built with a fiber-reinforced composite structure for easy transportation and assembly. Developed to ensure personal privacy while still meeting China’s strict land use policy, a prototype of the minimal home is currently on display in a Beijing park. Let’s just avoid stacking the home in lines, less it disappear. We’ve got more photos below!

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There are end-of-term pranks, then there are end-of-term hacks. MIT students have been known to integrate entire campus buildings into theirs, the most famous (and coolest) example being the Great Dome’s transformation into everyone’s favorite droid, R2-D2. The latest hack occurred last night, when a team of students programmed a monumental game of color (!) Tetris on the gridded facade of MIT’s Green Building. Designed by I.M. Pei, the concrete structure is the tallest building in Cambridge, and its modular frame of windows proved the ideal vehicle for the task. These factors marked the tower prime real estate for future hacks, so much so that “Tetris on the Green Building” had long been coveted as the “Holy Grail of hacks.” Apparently, the students used a joystick mounted on a podium at ground level to control the game, which mimicked the original’s title scroll and its classic “game over” animation. You can watch the video below to see how the night played out.

[via TGDaily]

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