Posted on 07/09/2024 5:59:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
CMAX Systems' building-in-a-box before it becomes a building (image widened using AI)CMAX Systems
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You could view it as a solid-floored uber-tent or an easily relocatable temporary building – but you could also call it a super-minimal tiny home for US$8,000. This remarkable building-in-a-box was designed for housing refugees, but it's now on sale. CMAX Systems' building-in-a-box seems almost too good to be true. It offers a solid-floored, robust, habitable structure, 19 ft long by 7.4 ft wide (5.8 x 2.25 m) with a ceiling height of 7.2 ft (2.2 m), so only a handful of pro basketball players would brush their heads on the ceiling.
The CMAX System's most transformative super power though, is its ability to fold into a manageable 330-lb (150-kg) unit that can easily be transported on the back of a pickup or a trailer, then set down more or less anywhere, raised off the ground and leveled out with its adjustable legs and ready to go within about 10 minutes, using two people and no special tools. You could look at it as a super-robust, solid-floor, eight-person tent that won't blow away in a storm, or as an easily relocatable temporary building.
The rigid central structure of the unit enables the CMAX (at additional cost) to mount solar panels, air-conditioning and/or a water treatment unit. It also gives it a lockable door – although to be fair, security-wise it's only really locked until somebody wanders up with a knife and makes a new door of their own.
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Would be good for interment and reeducation camps
And for brining in more ‘refugees’.
...and migrants, instead of handing $2 billion to luxury NYC hotels
In Portland this is called affordable housing.
Sorry, when I look at the first pic all I can see is a giant casket, built for 8.
This thing (a tent) has to be made out of plastic wafer thin. Unless you are inside, its blowing away with the wind. It looks like a rigid structure but I would challenge their definitions.
Yeah it’s not a whole lot better than a tent - I would rather convert one of those storage containers. They’re WAY harder to get into.
Lots of applications for the homeless lunatics out there. Instant Crack House! Instant Brothel!
I’ll bet that every Socialist Democrat Mayor is spending Tax Dollars on these for their overflowing homeless problems.
If you KEEP building it, they WILL come! (Idjits.)
And probably cost a lot less than the trailers that sat around and rotted after the massive flooding in Louisiana from the hurricane years back.
coming soon to a public park or sidewalk near you! homeless people for no extra cost!
I bet they are not bullet proof
What a novel idea. If only they would put wheels on it— maybe next model.
Instant break-ins with these things. Slicey-slicey. No real security compared to actual trailers.
Housing for the ex-middle class
Fascinating. Guess which country will buy then? Answer: The most generous. Would it buy that country anything?
Picture them placed on outdated aircraft carriers-prepositioned all over the world waiting for an emergency. Would they have an American flag painted on it? Other countries would veto the idea. On the other hand Uncle Sugar would be saying come here-more free stuff.
It’s a pop-up tent trailer with no wheels.
let schumer, pelosi & newsome license it and sell it to california & NY cities for 100 grand each to house the homeless?
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