Re: It *could* have been the story of the race
- From: Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 15:10:43 GMT
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RicodJour <ricodjour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 30, 1:56 am, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <9V%Tl.27671$c45.9...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Robert Chung" <anonymous.cow...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ryan Cousineau wrote:
I'm beginning to think that decent, inexpensive pre-fab construction
is going to arrive on the same day that the first Tokamak fusion power
plant goes onto the grid, and the same day that the Moller Skycar
dealership opens.
In reality-world land, the future is building homes out of lightly
used 2-TEU shipping containers.
Unfortunately, this pre-fab home builder just announced that they had to
close shop:
http://www.mkd-arc.com/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/detail?entry_id=40838
Yeah, unfortunate:
"It can be built in as little as 10 to 14 months at a cost comparable to
or below traditional site-built homes."
It does look like a beautiful home but that sentence does beg to be read
as "our lead time is 2 years and it will cost more than a site-built
home."
Manufactured homes don't cut it right now. Every one that looks pleasant
enough to live in costs more than having a home built the old-fashioned
way. Architects and design firms like to produce manufactured-home
concepts at a torrid pace, but nobody is seriously marketing one that
acts like it's trying to be a competitive product. The only real
manufactured-home market appears to be the standard tornado-fodder and
double-wides, and those aren't especially impressive as examples of
either housing or mass production.
...in this country. Japan does quite a bit of it.
http://www.momoy.com/2009/05/22/small-japanese-family-residence-by-kenji-tanak
a/
R
It's small, but are you sure it's pre-fab? At best, SHDL seems to be
making custom small homes. This may be close to Kurgan's dream of the
CNC'd home, but I admit I have semi-threadjacked his idea and am more
interested in the idea of a mass-produced (maybe modular) home that
actually costs less than building from scratch on-site.
They're parallel, maybe even convergent ideas, since both Stainless and
I think present home construction should be introduced to
mass-production techniques*
*Now we could have an interesting debate about whether CNC anything is
really mass-production, but I think that ship has sailed now. The
signature example is Apple producing billet-machined aluminum** laptop
bodies by the million, which shocked me when I heard it was
production-feasible.
**As to why they'd do that, I think the answer is provided by my
plastic-bodied late-2007 MacBook, where the case is cracking, flaking
off, and bulging in multiple places. I admit to being brutal to laptops,
but the progressive failure of this computer's case would be an
embarrassment to even the cheapest PC laptop maker. It's beginning to
look like computer leprosy.
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