Saving For a Space Ship Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 (edited) Son of Y:Cube could provide as many as new 7,500 homes a year Reminder : this was the Ymca Ycube http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/rogers-stirk-harbour-ready-to-roll-out-thousands-of-flatpack-homes/5080170.article If link does not come out, Google "Son of Y:Cube could provide as many as new 7,500 homes a year Son of Y:Cube could provide as many as new 7,500 homes a year " Son of Y:Cube could provide as many as new 7,500 homes a year Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has revealed plans to scale up production of the practice’s “move-on” homes to deliver up to 7,500 a year across the UK. The practice’s associate partner Andrew Partridge said they had seen a huge interest in the homes – a larger version of the flatpack Y:Cube homes designed for the YMCA in south-west London. He claimed they could form part of a response to the country’s housing shortage. “Everywhere has a housing problem, and this can be used anywhere in the UK,” he said. “We can have different manufacturing points and set them up without much cost. In the south-west there’s an extraordinarily acute shortage of housing for key workers and this can help. “What has been quite shocking after talking to lots of different people is quite how big the housing problem is, and it’s not the usual candidates. If you look at the Y:Cube, the people there are not your normal homeless, they are studying or have jobs. The problem is extraordinary and frightening. “We are talking to a London university and they are having issues finding housing for their staff. In Kingston we are in talks about working with the concept.” Partridge was speaking ahead of the installation of 24 two-bed homes at the Ladywell site in Lewisham. The practice entered into a partnership with Lewisham council in 2015 to create a deployable residential development using a volumetric construction method on the site of the former Ladywell leisure centre. The temporary housing development has a maximum procurement budget of £4.3 million and will remain on site for between one and four years. Lewisham council has contracted RSH&P and Aecom to deliver homes which are bigger than the original Y:Cube apartments in Mitcham. Closer in size to traditional council homes, they will go to people currently living in B&Bs in the borough. The project is expected to complete in April. Partridge said that though Mitcham acted as a “proof of concept”, the Lewisham plans had been closely watched by other London boroughs. “The mayor of Lewisham has done this amazing thing of pioneering the use of these homes and everybody is interested in what they are doing at Ladywell,” he said. “It’s only deployable because you can take it away and put it somewhere else.... Edited February 17, 2016 by Saving For a Space Ship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 (edited) Lots of people would live in a garden shed if it was cheap enough AND they could put them where they want and get (planning ) permission. In fact in some areas it's reported that lots of people do exactly that at the moment (generally unofficially) and lots did that in the past (it was admittedly well in the past before the mass immigration ). Designing small units to live in isn't really the problem it's where to put them at low land cost and in decent enough numbers to make a real difference to raw overcrowding in some areas. Apart from that the other issue is that lots of people claim that (apart from serious overcrowding in some areas) there isn't actually a housing shortage (there's relatively few living on the streets) - it's a house price problem. Even so it's an appalling solution and apart from anything else it's just tinkering around the edges. It's not really a symptom of a developed nation is it. Edited February 17, 2016 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyres Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 this will solve the housing problem , just wear your house, can accommodate one adult and a couple of children... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Roomy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pig Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Well you can't blame them for designing - they're architects. But we actually need people who can think outside the box... To prevent this solution coming up all the time maybe we need a better definition of the problem ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saving For a Space Ship Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Pop-up village in south-east London to house homeless families http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/18/pop-up-village-in-south-east-london-to-house-homeless-families Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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