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• wenc 5y ago
  It's an interesting idea, but I wonder about that. The largest Quonset hut ever built was 54,000 sq ft [1]. The Amazon facility was 1.167 million sq ft. At that square footage, the semi-circle arc (which is its main wind-deflecting feature) would have to be gigantically tall. It doesn't sound like a feasible geometry at that scale. [1] http://varnumcontinentals.org/2016/04/the-quonset-hut-a-rhode-island-original/ http://varnumcontinentals.org/2016/04/the-quonset-hut-a-rhod...