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84. Housing REimagined with @pad.space


Aug 12, 2026

Episode Highlights:

  • What is a P[A]D? (Personal Apportion Dwellings Explained).

  • Owning the Partikles™, not the shell.

  • Turning empty commercial office buildings into high-density housing.

  • The "Open Building" approach & sharing expensive infrastructure.

  • Why is America still resistant to manufactured housing?

  • Financial breakdown and the future of portable living.

“It [P[A]D] goes with you wherever you go and it grows with you.” 


- Luis Antonio Uribegan, Design Think Tank, Co-founder of P[A]D 


Show Notes:

  • 00:00 - Intro to Ep 84 and Luis Antonio Uribegan from Design Think Tank and Antje Steinmuller from University of Michigan.

  • 02:25 - Reimagining housing for the future with a holistic approach.

  • 04:19 - University of Michigan and P[A]D are joining forces to redefine housing together.

  • 05:30 - Intro to Antje, professor and chair of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and what she does.

  • 09:36 - The “Open Building” concept.

  • 11:19 - What is P[A]D? (Personal Apportion Dwellings)

    • Owning the personal Partikles™ that create the unit, not the structural unit itself.

  • 11:40 - Utilizing commercial empty spaces as shells for housing conversion.

  • 12:35 - Configuring your unit to align with your lifestyle.

  • 13:40 - Sharing the expensive infrastructure.

  • 15:35 - Ultra-modular capabilities of transporting your unit with you!

  • 17:17 - Why is there such a resistance to manufactured housing?

  • 19:45 - What does a finished P[A]D panel look like? 

  • 21:16 - Financial statistics of owning a P[A]D.

  • 24:30 - What defines a good location for a P[A]D?

  • 28:14 - Economic mobility and a unit that grows with you.

  • 31:50 - How are housing needs and demographics changing?

  • 35:35 - Having agency over your own living space.


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