https://www.404media.co/email/ed674050-352a-4fa2-94f4-74b079733526/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter (I took no part in this AI campaign but I find it hilarious- now will Elon deliver?)
A structural design concept for a removable condo (Also a grand plan to fix the housing shortage and increase social mobility)
Got a new job opportunity, and need to work in another city for 3 months? Why break a lease, when you can just create a new system for parking a condo?
Reduce building costs by 2/3rds- mass produce the components needed to assemble and construct a building. Standardize everything- window repair, insulation, hydraulic jack, heat pumps, water hookups, staircases, so whenever something needs replacement, it doesn't require a local contracter, since they might not be available. All the repair tools can be driven from out of town if unavailable, since the blueprints would be open-sourced.
Don't like your neighbor? Vote with your feet, and a hydraulic lift!
"L'enfer, c'est les autres" Huis Clos, 1944- Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" - Virginia Woolf
Si l'on ne peut pas choisir celui de son voisin, les voisins pourront peut-être choisir ailleurs
Want to improve the healthcare system? Start building houses!
https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Housing-is-Health-Care.pdf
https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/briefs/housing-and-health-overview-literature
The primary and essential function of housing, to provide a safe and sheltered space, is absolutely fundamental to the people’s health and well being. – Dearbhal Murphy
Some Bing AI images generated with DALL-E for an old idea
from https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/project-vs-reality/the-contemporary-resort :
"Approximately 500 guest rooms line the outer walls of this building. Room renovation should have been a simple matter of replacing modules when refurbishment was needed; however, it was found that the modules settled and became stuck in place, rendering them irremovable. Most of Disney's Polynesian Resort was built this way also."
The winter probably makes the condos hard to dislodge. Some lubrication wouldn't be a bad idea. Most Craftsman cabinet drawers probably use some similar type. A dishwasher has a rollable rack. Really no reason the weight tolerances can't be simulated before the optimum preventative sagging limit is determined. The condo rails could leave an additional few centimers between the walls to wheel back and forth periodically (2-3 months) so that it is not stationary for long periods of time and rusts.
Like Carvana, but for Condos
https://www.yesterland.com/contemporary.html
"WW: Aside from demonstrating a concept, what advantage would there being in building the rooms in a factory? JK: This type of construction was attractive to the company because, in theory, it would cut the building time in half. They were battling tight deadlines to get the Vacation Kingdom built on time. By 1970, all the available 1972 convention dates for the Contemporary had already been booked, so a delay was unthinkable. Usually, you built a structure and then the rooms. By doing both at the same time and then combining them, it would save time and money. It ended up doing neither. U.S. Steel estimated the cost for each room would be $17,000, but the final cost was over $100,000 a room in 1971 dollars. So imagine building a new updated room at 2010 costs and then the additional cost of installing it."
If you read the above article about Yesterland, you might conclude and concur that the construction of the Contemporary Resort was never intended to be modular. And you are correct. However, this isn't the purpose of this repository. It's to explore the feasibility of a portable condo with an elevator. I research the possible, not the impossible. And I definitely don't base research on one-time experiments. What starts as a rumor has no less value to a good idea than one that meets conventional architecture.
"“If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.” — Mario Andretti.
I am not someone who thinks there is necessarily a dream job for everyone. What I do believe though, is that there are many great opportunities that get ignored because the cost of relocation is too prohibitively expensive, either because the duration of the job is too short or too long (and too pricey for a short term rental). And I do not think that makes for a good economy, both for individuals, and national economies. Many people invest in homes as a source of value appreciation, but the low percentage of home-ownership does not indicate a good metric for a prosperity. I think reducing debt is a greater indicator of prosperity, but also increases the ability for individuals to invest in new enterprises. If everyone is paying off a 30-year underwater mortgage, what's the value in that? Therefore I think it's wise for construction firms to allow individuals to pursue both short and long-term jobs, but to be able to spend minimal time moving. Not every town has a hotel or rental property that one can move in and out for months- and even if it were, is it worth the $100=$250 a night? Being able to move fast enough, as in the Andretti quote, is all about allowing people to have everything under control.
The problem is that most researchers aren't interested in history and might only read headlines and conclude what the research stated. But all that proves is that real innovation often gets overlooked, because no one is interested in testing a theory that was never even developed.
"About 10 years ago, when people probably had more attention span than they do now, a survey from a respected organization concluded that the majority of Americans read only headlines.
It was probably worse than that then — who wants to admit to such superficial habits, after all? — and it’s probably much worse than that now.
That’s one reason headlines matter a lot. It’s as far as most people get. The nuances of a story, no matter how much they may matter to reporters and their editors, don’t always break through. Headlines do."
As in anything in life, do you your own research.
Supplemental repository: https://github.com/hatonthecat/Post-scarcity
If you're questioning why I would ask Bing this, you should also ask why Bing would allow me to make this query.
Yes, some of these generations are extremely impractical. Some are comical.
I prefer to generate ones that aren't entirely impractical. Perhaps this is a labor of evolution.
