Reconfigurable, Modular Dream Home

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @07:49AM from the wonder-what-sort-of-power-supply-it-needs dept.

ssyladin writes: "CNN is reporting a new dream cyber home being designed by the Brits for use in Hong Kong. It combines smart home technologies of touch panels for lights, heating, water taps, with the ability to move the interior wall partitions around with a basic toolbox and about a half day of labor. No more LAN parties in the garage! The homes can also be built faster and with less waste too. Bit skimpy on the details, but its an exciting prospect if its ever finished." Concepts like this probably fill a lot of napkin doodles around the world -- what do you think this particular one should do differently?

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Buckminster Fuller Spinning in his grave! by TheLocustNMI · 2002-08-28 08:09 · Score: 1, Redundant

Well, maybe he's not, but reconfigurable housing (as an idea) has been around a while, and no doubt the Dymaxion house was a great example! Forget that half-day crap, you could unlock the wall and turn it around the center-post!

http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion

http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/house.html

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