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You know, I wonder if this had just been a little more modular if it could have sparked something longer lasting? Apartments are arguably this same line. You b
by ianai 7y ago
You know, I wonder if this had just been a little more modular if it could have sparked something longer lasting?
Apartments are arguably this same line. You build a lot of units to maximize the number of residencies in a parcel of land. In the process, you make the units as uniform as possible. I could imagine the entire units being manufactured off site being beneficial. (Granted, I seem to recall some modern apartment complexes being built exactly this way.)
A case where something done slightly different would have leap frogged to something modern.
- pjc50 7y agoThere's already a lot of work in "modular housing" and various sorts of "pre-fabricated" construction. It has something of a bad reputation, dating from the very early days. The UK had something of a plague of concrete panel houses that turned out to be defective: https://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/houses-of-non-traditional-construction-common-property-defects-6/ https://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/houses-of-non-traditional-...