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Bright design: Y:Cube homes are designed to help the YMCA house young people. Each flat has a double bedroom, bathroom and living room with sofa, desk, bookshelf and kitchen area

Short-term leases, long-term thinking: The Y:Cubes have 60-year short-term leases, can be put up near ordinary houses, disassembled, moved on trucks and put up somewhere else

Inspired by beach huts: the energy-efficient Y:Cubes are pre-assembled and kitted out in a factory, then taken to the site to be slotted together in two- or three- storey blocks

Floorplan: the units are 286 square feet and can house two people