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Here in southwestern Europe most people live in apartment buildings. Their design is usually guided by cost concerns, developed and approved by people who never
by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Here in southwestern Europe most people live in apartment buildings. Their design is usually guided by cost concerns, developed and approved by people who never set foot in them. As a result, most of us end up living in apartments which don't really work. Mine has a niche for the washing machine but nowhere to dry the laundry, for instance.
Reading the op's post, I wonder if there's room (excuse the pun) for hackers to disrupt the house construction market with affordable, highly functional units that make their tenants' lives better in a much more tangible way than another photo sharing app.
- brador 15y agoShipping containers have been used as "hack" apartments...I think it was the netherlands that has a complete student housing block made from them.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> Mine has a niche for the washing machine but nowhere to dry the laundry, for instance. Are you sure it's not meant for one of these? http://i.imgur.com/e4sMH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/e4sMH.jpg
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- SimHacker 15y agoThe Dymaxion House never really caught on, in spite of its space-age name and modern aluminum exterior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times, but they were all factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. One important design consideration was ease of shipment and assembly.