I should have thought to look here when writing up the FutureShack item from last week. The LOT-EK people are up in Toronto pitching their wares and demonstrating that architects are just as crass and insensitive towards the downtrodden here in the first world as well. They try to mitigate it by showing that you can make lots of other things as well, even ones that rich folk might buy. I don’t think they quite have the handle on value engineering their concept, nor leveraging existing production capacity. Given the highly intinerant lifestyle of many homeless, I think they should look into something lighter and more transportable. Hey — I know! Cardboard boxes. Think about it: light, cheap, modular, and allows for even easier expansion. Maybe they can get Gehry to make the furniture.
It’s an admirable effort, but falls short of the wit and panache evidenced by the planners of the Atlanta Olympics in ’96, who researched a plan to house and relocate the homeless with unused rail cars. Do I need to connect the dots on that one?
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Ignore all the people/cargo metaphors please.
I should have thought to look here when writing up the FutureShack item from last week. The LOT-EK people are up in Toronto pitching their wares and demonstrating that architects are just as crass and insensitive towards the downtrodden here in the first world as well. They try to mitigate it by showing that you can make lots of other things as well, even ones that rich folk might buy. I don’t think they quite have the handle on value engineering their concept, nor leveraging existing production capacity. Given the highly intinerant lifestyle of many homeless, I think they should look into something lighter and more transportable. Hey — I know! Cardboard boxes. Think about it: light, cheap, modular, and allows for even easier expansion. Maybe they can get Gehry to make the furniture.
It’s an admirable effort, but falls short of the wit and panache evidenced by the planners of the Atlanta Olympics in ’96, who researched a plan to house and relocate the homeless with unused rail cars. Do I need to connect the dots on that one?