1 Day Homes

timgaul said:
We need pics! :D
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The place has been completed, sorry.

But this looked little DIY, not as fancy as the vid's.

It looked like they used a sort of angle Iron for the frame, then inserted thick poly-foam sides. Came out great.I'll take a few snaps when I go past the place again.:D
 
There is a company in PE that produces these homes. They have been unsuccessful in all local SA tenders, yet have won overseas awards and tenders!!

/thought so - followed links in OP: http://www.moladi.net/contact.aspx
 
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Any idea how much those prefab houses you see at construction sites cost? I could be wrong here but the capital involved with starting a prefab manufacturing plant is quite high, on top of that you have tender specifications which probably stipulate that the company which provides the raw materials to the contractors who are building the RDP hosues must be from a developing sector which rules out a plant of American scale. On top of that there just isn't enough demand in general for prefab houses therefore you rubbish brick & mortar houses will prevail.
 
Well, as someone who currently owns a brick house, I won't mind having something like that for my next home. There is a lot of possibilities with regards to design when you work with more "forgiving" materials. And there's a few other positive points over brick and mortar about these houses that I can think of.

And yes, these days, "bricks and mortar" is more like "sand and more sand"..... :mad:
 
Ruach said:
I cant see that they can/could complain. By getting a house like this and not a brick house they have:

Cheaper running costs (heating/cooling)
Less fire risk
A bigger house
access to indoor plumbing
a house in a week tops instead of 5-10years (that will last for 1-3years)
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To the people waiting for RDP houses the only cost to them is time. Any other costs/efficiences are ignored. Besides they don't pay for water and electricity most of the time anyways.

They also don't see "whites" living in timber houses(mostly) and thus they think timber housing is cheap rubbish, and they want brick.

Uneducated masses....what can you do?
 
Awesome vid thx. Hard to imagine they can erect a house so quickly, I'll take one of those pls! :D
 
What about containers's they are being used for portable offices and schoools.. I'm sure they could be converted into housing..
 
Was watching Grand Designs the other day and these people got a massive prefabricated house from Germany which was all erected within 5 days. Also saw a episode about a similar house from Switzerland. All these companies were super efficient & the tolerances for fitting things together is close to a ball hair.
 
ponder said:
Was watching Grand Designs the other day and these people got a massive prefabricated house from Germany which was all erected within 5 days. Also saw a episode about a similar house from Switzerland. All these companies were super efficient & the tolerances for fitting things together is close to a ball hair.
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Yeah, saw that episode, kinda Mondrian meets house. Very cool if you're into bauhaus/art deco architecture (which I am).

Ze Germans arrived to erect ze haus und ze British crane vos late. Typical.
 
TooFastTim said:
Very cool if you're into bauhaus/art deco architecture (which I am).
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The French are also reasonable exponents of neo-nouveau architecture. IMO the Pompidou Centre is a fine example of ‘Bauhaus’ architecture. Sure, it’s not aesthetically pretty (beauty is in the eye of the beholder anyway) but it is immensely attractive to plumbers, ventilation people, electricians or anyone tasked with maintenance (you can see everything) with all that plumbing and wiring exposed. This also makes it attractive to terrorists. With all that plumbing and wiring exposed, it is relatively easy to place explosives at critical points. So maintenance personnel and terrorists would find ‘Bauhaus’ architecture attractive (form follows function).
 
Palimino said:
And ponder

The Pompidou centre is a classic example of Bauhaus architecture to the extent where it is used in textbooks to illustrate the style.
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References? It definitely does not strike me as Bauhaus at all, more 'High-Tech Modern'.
 
ponder said:
Dunno if the Pompidou could be classified as Bauhaus but I like the building. Lloyd's in London went for a similar concept for their new corporate headquarters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's_building
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From YOUR Wikipedia link:

Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.
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Palimino said:
From YOUR Wikipedia link:
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I know that.

I'm referring to the books etc you mentioned as references that refer to the Pompidou as a Bauhaus architecture.

Edit: Never mind, I'm happy that the Pompidou & Lloyd's buildings are classified as High-tech architecture, Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism and not Bauhaus or International Style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-tech_architecture
 
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ponder said:
I know that.

I'm referring to the books etc you mentioned as references that refer to the Pompidou as a Bauhaus architecture.

Edit: Never mind, I'm happy that the Pompidou & Lloyd's buildings are classified as High-tech architecture, Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism and not Bauhaus or International Style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-tech_architecture
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The Pompidou Centre is such a ubiquitous definition of the style that **any** book which explains the style would have it as an illustration or listed as an example. You’re being evasive.
 
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