30-storey mega hotel built is 15 days

[ThomasSoerensen]

Nice. I wonder how close we are to seeing modular housing where you don't move into a new house but take it with you and just pay for the plot which already has the required facilities plumbed in.

I predict if this isn't already available then someone will come up with a design where each room in a house is a module and you can put them together however you wish, lego style.

Need a two bed flat, bang two bedroom, 1 living room, one kitchen, one bathroom module onto the top of the existing block, than a flat roof on top until the next layer is built. Be a bit of a pain moving if you were in the middle of the stack though.

Anyone patented this idea yet?

no, for obvious reasons. Its stoopid

[Mich the Tester]

Nice. I wonder how close we are to seeing modular housing where you don't move into a new house but take it with you and just pay for the plot which already has the required facilities plumbed in.

They do that already in Australia. You go to a house yard and buy a new or used wooden house, which is then delivered in large blocks to your plot and nailed together.

[Halo Jones]

Nice. I wonder how close we are to seeing modular housing where you don't move into a new house but take it with you and just pay for the plot which already has the required facilities plumbed in.

I predict if this isn't already available then someone will come up with a design where each room in a house is a module and you can put them together however you wish, lego style.

Need a two bed flat, bang two bedroom, 1 living room, one kitchen, one bathroom module onto the top of the existing block, than a flat roof on top until the next layer is built. Be a bit of a pain moving if you were in the middle of the stack though.

Anyone patented this idea yet?

This happens to varying degrees around the world, won’t take of in the UK due to the national mind-set of only accepting brick houses.

(Or at lease what is perceived to be brick: there are many timber frames with a brick skin that the owner believes is a traditional brick house.)

[PAH]

It's called a trailer park.

Looks like that's been designed by a Meccano fan rather than Lego fan.

[d000hg]

no, for obvious reasons. Its stoopid

Modular housing has been around for years, they even had it on Grand Designs. One you can take apart and re-use, that I haven't seen.

[PAH]

Modular housing has been around for years, they even had it on Grand Designs. One you can take apart and re-use, that I haven't seen.

That's on the right lines. As most rooms are square or rectangle it would be easy to have the modules built solely of glass walls with almost invisible hinged glass doors mid wall.

Use triple glazing for insulation.

Outside layer can be heat reflective for summer.

Middle layer made from that glass that defaults to frosted but turns clear when an electric current is applied.

The inside layer could be a transparent video wall.

Power outlets built into the corners so they hook up when modules joined.

Use vacuum suction cups for hooking stuff to the walls.


I'd rather live in something like that than a brick house.

One for the next series of Dragons Den.

[Joeman]

but how do they get the crane out of the lift shaft???

[darmstadt]

They do that already in Australia. You go to a house yard and buy a new or used wooden house, which is then delivered in large blocks to your plot and nailed together.

Germany too...

[Mich the Tester]

but how do they get the crane out of the lift shaft???

Crane is mounted on top of the lift, so enter the lift and then press on the top floor button. Crane goes through roof, push it on one side and ask pedestrians to move out of the way. Fixed. Much quickness, plenty cheapness.

[Arturo Bassick]

Some hotels are built like that.
Basically a bunch of pre decorated and furnished portacabins are plugged together then a brick skin is built around them.