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It all works to challenge the engrained notion that a Home (not a house) is erected on a plot of land and enjoyed as personal property. This Lockian notion is not only archaic in nature, but it is also becoming less and less practical. You've heard the schpiel before – overpopulation, dwindling resources, the need to do everything that Al Gore says – so I don't have to tell you why prefabrication is, if not a necessity, at least a possibility for "sustainable living." If nothing else, we can see the principles in operation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When many New Orleans residents lost their homes, they adopted prefab houses, assembled offsite and transported to the Big Easy.
Home Delivery fully realizes the term "multimedia" by utilizing film, architectural models, drawings, blueprints, photographs and reconstructions in order to fully demonstrate how innovative thinking can make prefab housing a new standard in architectural design. Once these ideas have been planted in your head, you can stroll out to the lot and see the principles in action in the form of completed houses.
These homes, assembled by Kieran Timberlake Associates, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier, Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass, and Oskar Leo Kaufmann, have stressed both process and product. During the construction, the designers have all kept
blogs on the MoMa's website in order to track the process of the assembly.
It could all be a pipe dream, but maybe in the future we'll all be living in houses that are transported to us by trucks. If so then
Home Delivery is actually a presentation of the future. How could you not want to see that? - RT,
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