Posted on 08/17/2018 5:44:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From its bamboo floors to its rooftop deck, Clayton Homes' new industrial-chic "i-house" is about as far removed from a mobile home as an iPod from a record player.
Architects at the country's largest manufactured home company embraced the basic rectangular form of what began as housing on wheels and gave it a postmodern turn with a distinctive v-shaped roofline, energy efficiency and luxury appointments.
Stylistically, the "i-house" might be more at home in the pages of a cutting-edge architectural magazine like Dwell an inspirational source than among the Cape Cods and ranchers in the suburbs.
The layout of the long main "core" house and a separate box-shaped guestroom-office "flex room" resemble the letter "i" and its dot. Yet Clayton CEO and President Kevin Clayton said "i-house" stands for more than its footprint.
With a nod to the iPod and iPhone, Clayton said, "We love what it represents. We are fans of Apple and all that they have done. But the 'I' stands for innovation, inspiration, intelligence and integration."(continued)
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They are cheap to build. Your daydream is probably closer than you think.
Yeah, I didn’t like the colors either.
Actually it is.
A couple of steps up from the tiny houses movement.
Actually, I’m surprised Buffet’s company hasn’t cashed in on that one, too.
They could be, but at least back in the ‘80s they were shoddily produced. I imagine because any purchasers thereof were so price sensitive.
That is my immediate association—with the tornado and hurricane risk of “mobile homes”.
I think I’d go for a sandals model—for more light!
I think a lot of local zoning would rule them out in New England.
The new ones use strofoam as a mold and the cement is pored in between. It looks inexpensive to build, with the most part being the Styrofoam that connects like legos.
https://www.concreteconstruction.net/projects/residential/how-to-build-an-affordable-concrete-home_o
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(Or, you might prefer one of those glass homes...)
Maybe with enough acreage...
Or this...http://www.monolithic.org/domes
Could always go full hobbit:
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/green-magic-homes-are-probably-neither.html
Might have ended up here, had Hillary won:
I was just having some fun with the pretentious flavor of the i-House thing versus regular manufactured housing.
My absolute favorite manufactured housing: the Sears, Roebuck & Co. “mail order” ones of a hundred years ago, many of which are highly prized today.
They were delivered in numbered pieces like a model and you assembled them onsite. And IIRC the pieces benefited from the same advantages that you note in modern modular construction, being manufactured in large buildings where they weren’t subject to the elements.
http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/
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