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Duany for Haiti
Andrés Duany has designed a basic, inexpensive and easy-to-assemble house that could shelter thousands of displaced Haitians.
Andrés Duany has designed a basic, inexpensive and easy-to-assemble house that could shelter thousands of displaced Haitians.
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"You've never seen a house like this,'' Duany said. "When you build something out of this material, it's like being inside a fiberglass boat. It's absolutely the best.''
Yeah, that sounds great!!! Just where I want to live.
As an aside to our extensive notes about this supposedly innovative home, we also are a marine manufacturer and we intentionally don't make boats out of fiberglass for other reasons that stated in our materials about our disaster recovery housing.
This "new" house is not as new as Mr. Duany believes. We've been manufacturing disaster housing for many years. For those who think the above diagram represents a revolution they may be interested in what is already being mass produced to house potentially millions:
The HaitiHouse™ division of our company, Harbor Homes LLC, (http://www.haitihouse.org) is the creator of the HaitiHouse™ FlatPackHome™, the FlatPackQuad™, the cargo2™ container series of bunkhouses, showers, kitchens, laundry, and office units, FEMA approved travel trailers, park models, mobile homes and support facilities for use as temporary AND permanent shelters.
We are already manufacturing a home that folds out in 15 minutes, packs down to less than 10 inches and fits 16 to a single cargo container. The HaitiHouse™ FlatPackHome™ is 7’6”x18’9” long comparable to the creation pictured. We also manufacture a larger version, and an entire FlatPackQuad™ line which creates private interior courtyard spaces for residents. Our unique FlatPackHome™ is engineer certified to withstand 130 mile an hour winds and has a Seismic D rating. People are safer in such structures. The entire integrated raised floor frame sits on the ground with clearance for water to pass through but it does not have to be set up on blocks as the shelter in the photo you show. Plus, the HaitiHouse™ FlatPackHome™ is already rated for 30-year use, is fireproof, waterproof and impervious to insects and rot. You can a time lapse video of the house being assembled with a wrench and a ladder by a few men in 15 minutes from placement on the ground at www.youtube.com/haitihouseorg1... MORE POSTED AT THE LINK BELOW.
The full text of our notes can be found posted on our website at:
http://www.haitihouse.org/252010duany-shelter-fails.html
While we admire Mr. Duany, we feel this is more an industrial manufacturing challenge, not an architectural one.
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