Reply to: 30-storey mega hotel built is 15 days

[NickFitz]

Thanks! Looks like something worth reading.

It is indeed

I've got the Penguin 20th Century Classics translation. I see there's a more recent translation available on Amazon; I may get that one too

[Mich the Tester]

Yevgeny Zamyatin envisaged something similar in his dystopian novel We, which influenced George Orwell in the writing of 1984.

Thanks! Looks like something worth reading.

[NickFitz]

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.

Yevgeny Zamyatin envisaged something similar in his dystopian novel We, which influenced George Orwell in the writing of 1984.

[scooterscot]

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.

You mean like SAS static caravan in Peckham?

Sounds like a good bet for those who invested in land. Cough.

[Mich the Tester]

indeed.

Ants have relatively large compound eyes, not little slits.

[Churchill]

Those slitty eyed little fellows are like ants!

[Mich the Tester]

Probably, and travel lodge and even post house if memory serves.
They are pre manufactured to the design standard. This reduces building errors and increases the corporate "look". Makes em quick to build too.
Have you never noticed how quickly hotels seem to go up compared to other buildings.

Makes them tulip to stay in too.

[Arturo Bassick]

Ibis hotels?

Probably, and travel lodge and even post house if memory serves.
They are pre manufactured to the design standard. This reduces building errors and increases the corporate "look". Makes em quick to build too.
Have you never noticed how quickly hotels seem to go up compared to other buildings.

[Mich the Tester]

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.

Ibis hotels?

[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.

[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.

[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...

[Joeman]

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

[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.

[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.