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| India-Pakistan |
| Tech talk: Housing for all |
| 2018-09-03 |
| [DAWN] Imagine a house that you could just pack up and move between cities or countries. Kinda like a trailer house, only more complicated... Sounds too good to be true? No. Not if you believe ModulusTech, a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -based startup, which is claiming to offer exactly that. Whoopdy doo fer dem. To be clear, the house in question is not your usual double-storey bungalow with a backyard and verandah. Yup. Nobody's gotten around to building transportable backyards. It’s as simple as it gets ‐ a one-room, flat-packed housing unit that can be assembled in a mere three hours. Just three hours? Hold your horses! Assembled in three hours, yes, but manufacturing a single unit takes a week. As Socrates once said, "Huh?" The way it works is you place an order with the company, specifying your size requirements and all. Once the unit is ready, their team will install and assemble it on site, along with roofing as well as the fittings and plumbing. The standard 256 square feet model costs around Rs300,000. Lemme see, here... ummm... square root of 256... add 13... carry the nine... Yep. That works out to a 16x16 foot shack, with possibly indoor plumbing unless they just drill a hole in the floor. Rs300,000 works out to 2,424.11 Yankee dollars or 602,438,574.60 Bolivars. That's not bad for a first home. Loews will sell you a 12x24 steel shed for $2,353.29 (15,562.78 Turkish lira), which is about the same number of square feet, but you have to do your own plumbing. In case you want something customisable ‐ let’s say a bigger size or a fancy interior, the company claims to do that as well, though obviously the cost and time go up. Loews has contractors to handle that for you too! |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 It's amazing what can be created from pallets, plastic sheet and duct tape. All can be stolen from the US Military. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2018-09-03 15:25 |
| #3 I thought there'd be Bolan campers all over YT. Not hardly. But there's this guy... He's way over budget, the thing is as wacky and unsafe as everything else in Pakistan seems to be, and maybe his kids or retainers "helped out"... I don't care. I'm still awestruck by that deck. Ali and my dad... they'd be mites. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-03 13:25 |
| #2 The Asiatic steppes herders had Yurts. Might be a little, just a little, cheaper than this... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-09-03 13:12 |
| #1 WALL TENTS FOR SALE |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-09-03 04:30 |