The home includes a rooftop patio, smart entry, kitchen, washroom, bedroom, and living space.
Keycard entry offers privacy and security.
Artificial stone panels clad most of the exterior and a collapsible stairway leads to a roof top balcony.
Bloom Smart Home is my attempt home can look and feel like.”
~ Ribal Zebian
While Lifestyle intended to focus on 19-year-old Ribal Zebian, it’s almost impossible to keep tabs on London’s home-building whiz kid. We have gone to press too soon to report on the city’s 2026 municipal election, but attending Western as an engineering student wasn’t taxing enough for this inventor and entrepreneur. Zebian threw his hat in the ring and has run for City Councillor in London’s Ward 12. Whether voters decided to elect him or not, it is impossible not to admire his energy and ambition.
Ribal Zebian founded Generous Homes to develop an “architecturally pleasing home” that will eventually cost under $20,000. He currently lives in his prototype, built in his parents’ backyard, and plans to stay there for about a year. He calls his creation “Bloom,” and after several months, Zebian is confident that he is onto something that can help alleviate homelessness.
“Bloom Smart Home is my attempt to rethink what an affordable modular home can look and feel like,” says Zebian. “At the centre of Bloom is its folding structural skeleton, designed so the home can collapse into a much more compact form for transportation. The design includes folding stairs leading to a rooftop balcony, creating additional usable outdoor space.”
The roof top balcony, enhanced with a safety barrier and artificial turf, creates additional living space without increasing the homes footprint.
The interior includes a sleeping area, office space, storage and a sleek electric fireplace.
Zebian’s creation is certainly small at less than 250 square feet. Yet, it incorporates a kitchen, living area, washroom and a sleeping area, augmented with a 10-foot ceiling, a fireplace, motion-sensor lighting and key-card access. The exterior uses artificial stone panels, with minimal but inventive interior divisions.
Zebian believes he needs time “in house” to help him adapt and improve future iterations of Bloom, continually testing systems and identifying problems. “This is a living engineering experiment,” says Zebian. “Every mechanism, material and feature is an opportunity to learn, redesign and move closer to making thoughtfully designed housing more accessible.”
We will continue to watch this young man with interest, as will over 100,000 online followers.
