Posted by JWmHarmon on July 21, 2002 at 06:02:07:In Reply to: Re: ArchWeek - Working Steel and the Tokyo mini-house posted by Paul Malo on July 19, 2002 at 06:35:56:
Does this sound a little like Buckminster Fuller meets the Lustron house?
Buckminster Fuller designed the Dymaxion House made of metal and capable of being mass produced.
The Lustron House of the 1950's was made of enameled steel panels.
Current manufacturers produce SYP (Structural Insulated Panels) using OSB (Oriented Srand Board). Some manufacturers produce SYP's of foam core with metal finish surfaces. SYP's can be economically manufactured to specification.
Using these panels to build residential structures requires only the creative imagination of the architect/designer.
The new-car lot parallel of the new-house lot is an interesting development. I have passed by several such new-house lots in Ohio, USA. The models are open for inspection. Someone puchasing one of these houses then contracts to have the facory built panels delivered to the building site and erected in a matter of a few days or a few weeks. Panels may be nailed, screwed, or bolted together. Some of these models look cheap and "trailer-park" like. Other model homes are indistinguishable from traditional stick built homes.
There is really nothing different from the pattern-book homes of the early 20th century in the USA or the Sears catalog houses. Instead of building the "pattern-book" house on the building lot, the "factory house" is built at the factory and delivered to the site.
With computer technology at it's current state of development, is there any reason why we cannot apply good architectural design to "factory" homes?
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