KLUMPEN™
A factory-made off-grid utility core.
Set it down. Press 'ON'. Enter the 21st century.
WHAT?
Klumpen™ is a complete, off-grid utility core containing everything required for modern life: solar-generated electricity, satellite broadband, shower, lavatory, and a compact kitchen.
All condensed into seven meticulously engineered square metres.
HOW?
Set it down anywhere on Earth. Press 'ON'. Enter the twenty-first century.
Electricity, water, heat, internet — no permits, no plumbers, no supplication to utility companies.
Quite literally: the modern world in a box.
WHO?
Conceived and designed by the architectural duo Himmelsfahrtskommando.
Amplified by Team Vex.
Produced under the quietly concerned supervision of The Great Exhibition.
PRICE?
Target retail: $35,000.
An aluminium extreme-conditions edition — for volcanoes, glaciers, and Norwegian gardens — $198,000.
WHY?
People dream of building their own house. Raising walls is simple enough. The devil resides in the utilities.
Water. Power. Drainage. Cables. Codes.
Klumpen™ handles all of it.
And because it is factory-built, it is radically less expensive than anything assembled piecemeal on site.
DEMOCRACY?
The first democracies emerged where people built their own houses: the Greeks, the Haudenosaunee, the early Nordics.
Property meant autonomy.
Autonomy meant voice.
Today, in the industrialised world only 0.05% of people live in a house they have built with their own hands.
Instead, we rent. Or mortgage.
But a democracy of tenants is not the same thing as a democracy of builders.
Klumpen™ is a small step backwards — towards ownership. If only of a shed in the woods.
MORE INFORMATION?
klumpen_full.zip
press_kit.zip
RESERVE
Enter your email to get news when sign-ups start. There will be a reservation fee of €2,000.
Price: $35,000 + shipping. Estimated at $3,000 within the EU.
Limited series. First batch estimated September 2026.
NOTE
If you're writing 'just curious', you are not yet curious enough.
CONTACT
Orders: order@klumpen.eu
Press: press@klumpen.eu
GEOMETRY
ELECTRICAL
BATTERY
THERMAL & HVAC
WATER
KITCHEN & AMENITIES
COMMS
CONTACT
Press: press@klumpen.eu
Order: order@klumpen.eu
If you need a quote, use this one: 'It's not a "house". It's the 5% of a house that takes 95% of the time to build.'
THANKS
Our gratitude to the European Union (Horizon Europe), Umeå Kommun, Vinnova, and ArkDes — each brave enough to encourage the idea that individuals might once again design and build their own homes, without unnecessary administrative interference.
REMEMBER
Klumpen™ is best enjoyed with the Folktomt: 200 square metres of sovereign earth upon which you may erect whatever your imagination permits.
CREDITS
Idea & Core concept: Himmelfahrtskommando: Ebba Hallin, Pelle Backman
Construction & drawings: Himmelfahrtskommando
Supervision: The Great Exhibition
Design, graphics, ideas: The Great Exhibition, TNSID and Mazetti.it