Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Manufactured housing

[Joel Woodhull (jwoodhull]

RE pre-constructed building parts:
 
In a book called _How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're
Built_, Stewart Brand makes an excellent case for making sure
that buildings can adapt.  Anything that can't be built on the
site is likely to be hard to repair or modify on the site.
 
This is a red flag for "factory built housing" and
"preconstructed ...".  It doesn't mean some of those things won't
be useful, but a degree of skepticism is warranted.
 
Joel Woodhull
Sebastopol, CA