Sounds like jail construction.
Will they build a bunch of them, for us maybe?
Greg Chasen, about to be the most popular architect on Planet Earth
My HOA would go ape sh** if I tried any of this.
That describes my home.
People thought I was crazy when I built it, using all fireproof drywall and poured concrete floors, even on the second level.
Wrap around porches with concrete floors and metal roof that extend out 12 ft.
The thing most people forget is how to prevent interior fires from spreading.
It’s not really a house, it’s a blue VW bus from the 60s. Lol
What I saw was a whole lot of buildings with arches on fire and falling over. That tells me they were stick frame with stucco made to look like Ctrl/South America, Tropical adobe structures. Seems like there were a lot of plantings that helped allow the fire to spread from house to house. Many had a front porch view of the ocean and back porch view of the forested hills and homeowners probably planted things around the back to blend with the hills.
“He said prefabricated roof trusts seemed to perform poorly”
He probably said “roof trusses”,
As a fellow architect of 43 years, I can tell you one thing
for certain:
Mr. Chason is going to be very busy for the rest of his life.
I bet its roof wasn’t blue!
The house is ugly as hell but I suppose in a fire prone area like this it makes sense.