m-house (pronounced without the ‘h’) is a beautifully designed and meticulously detailed contemporary house or office. It's already become an iconic object.

Sounds interesting? Well it is, but it may not be what you expect. Jonathan Glancey writing in his article on buildings of the year in the Guardian said it's 'inspired'. Giles Kime for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine says the m-house is the chicest mobile home the world has even seen.

Yes, technically it’s a mobile home. Legally it meets the UK legal definition of a caravan, arriving in two parts that are joined together in a single day.

There the similarity ends. It doesn’t even look like a mobile home. It has eight-foot high ceilings, acoustic insulation and under-floor heating. It is heat insulated to UK building regulation part L (which means very insulated indeed). It is not, what for a house, you would call luxuriously spacious at 93-odd m2 internal space, but it is a good living size, measuring 17m x 6m overall and you can have the space partitioned pretty much how you like.

Designed to last a lifetime, it comes with Neff fridge, freezer, hob, oven and dishwasher and normally would have two bedrooms, bathroom and separate WC and a utility room with washing machine. It can even be supplied to float.

Yes, float. Tim Pyne designed the m-house to suit a site in Essex that had a flood alert. He says that it could revolutionise the usage of UK waterways and marginal land.

And if you change your mind about the view, or your neighbours, well you can just up-sticks, load it onto two rather large lorries and take it somewhere else.

m-house can be seen at www.m-house.org and costs between £110,000 and £150,000. Rather a lot considering you could build quite a substantial house for that if you had the land to build on, but that’s also m-houses’s advantage, it can be put on land that isn’t expensive, as in many cases you won’t need planning permission.