{"id":118,"date":"2004-05-18T01:48:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T08:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2004-05-18T01:48:06","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T08:48:06","slug":"futureshack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"FutureShack."},"content":{"rendered":"

So far not garnering any local coverage (near as I can tell) the Washington Post<\/a> does a fair job of writing up a new exhibit<\/a> at the Cooper-Hewitt, as part of their Solos series. This installment is modular, highly portable housing unit by Sean Godsell<\/a> entitled FutureShack<\/i>. Based primarily on shipping containers (what is it with architects<\/a> [though, really, you need to see this<\/a> which looks like the Semoitext(e) series got VC money circa 1999] and shipping containters? They really aren’t scaled to human inhabitation. I know this because I tried to make something out of one too<\/i>), it attempts to address mass production, portability, ease of assembly, etc. Won some awards too. The Post<\/i> notes that not everyone sees it as the mysterious grail of housing for the impoverished (you know, it’s not the lack of $15,000 in savings that prevents those who make $2 a day from obtaining housing, it’s the lack of decent design options.<\/i>). And the name should indicate that the author perhaps isn’t quite perfectly in tune with those who are similarly interested in this problem. Aside from his absurd claim that a portable generator for air conditioning<\/i> will solve the problem of heat gain in building a house out of steel, I think it presumptive to criticize other aspects of its functionality until I see it, since it’s just across town. So see for yourself, and I’ll try to get back with an update (maybe I’ll wait until August to test the passive ventilation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So far not garnering any local coverage (near as I can tell) the Washington Post does a fair job of writing up a new exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt, as part of their Solos series. This installment is modular, highly portable housing unit by Sean Godsell entitled FutureShack. Based primarily on shipping containers (what is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}