Design Students Created These Sleek 'Micro Homes' The Size Of Parking Spots

Living in your car has a whole new meaning.

Students, faculty, and alumni from Savannah College of Art of Design (SCAD) recently created a series of tiny homes that fit neatly in a typical supermarket parking space.

According to the university, "SCADpad" is described as a "unique micro housing and adaptive re-use experiment that proposes an answer to the world's growing urban housing challenges."

Essentially, they're cool, millennial mini-trailers. The SCAD team built the three 135-square-foot units inside a midtown Atlanta parking garage. The homes are equipped with a kitchen, bathroom, and living space, and are decorated in Asian, European, and North American themes.

"They're entirely self-sufficient-it's small living with no compromises," said Christian Sottile, Dean of the School of Building Arts at SCAD.

And why focus on parking lots? "Parking structures are a unique and very recent building type," Sottile said."It's not a structure that cities, architects and designers have examined as opportunities for urban living."

According to SCAD, about half of all parking garages are actually vacant- allowing for potential residential space in increasingly populated cities.

The thrifty homes have been approved for temporary occupancy and will house students and guests starting April 15th.