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Hexagonal Housing System : BHome

erikrhendrickson

www.thebhome.com

The B Home design is a completelty new way to enclose space. Based on a hexagonal configuration of a triple helix spiral triangle truss, The B Home modular structure system can efficiently enclose a space with a small amount of material.

Applications include:

  • disaster relief, migrant housing and refugee camps,
  • events such as concerts or conventions, popup motel/overnight sleeping quarters, low income housing
  • greenhousing and storage
  • and the 1.6 billion people lacking adequate housing.

 
Jul 11, 11 6:46 pm
MixmasterFestus

I assume the bathrooms/kitchens are centrally located, and not in individual 'pods'?  Although, it could be really interesting to see how the infrastructure for that stuff (electricity, plumbing, ventilation) would be distributed (especially given the fact that you could have anywhere from one to hundreds of these on a site - wouldn't that change the infrastructure substantially?).

Also, are there two different systems being shown here?  Images 2,3,4, and 6 don't really match the system being described.  Plus, wouldn't it be tough to stack these circularly?

The concept seems to work spatially, but I'd like to know more about how those pesky infrastructural things work.  (Could you even put vents in the side of the walls like that?  Must be a very flat duct.)

Jul 11, 11 10:43 pm  · 
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Milwaukee08

Well, at least that was my first thought when I saw the drawings, modular shipping container architecture.

I am also confused about the circular arrangement in image 1, the walls on the outside wouldn't connect then, right, so you'd have triangular gaps between columns of pods? 

Jul 13, 11 6:01 pm  · 
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metal

michael maltzan's circular public housing had public space at the top

Jul 13, 11 6:42 pm  · 
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l3wis

what is with the woman in lingerie???

Jul 14, 11 11:37 am  · 
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