Cohousing-L Mailing List: Mobile/manufactured housing parks

[David Liset (dliset]

> Has anyone ever tried to install
> mobile/manufactured housing vertically as in a steel skeleton of a
> skyscraper, with elevators, like a big pigeon-hole parking lot?

Years ago, in a magazine, I saw a picture of what looked like a parking ramp for
mobile homes (it was cement).  It was built like the spokes of a wheel, and was 
at least four levels high.  As I recall, there did not appear to be coordination
of home exteriors, so I expect that it was open to all interested parties.  The 
magazine may have been "The Futurist".

As to "mobile/manufactured housing", if by "mobile" you mean "able to be 
transported to the site", rather than necessarily meaning that the unit has 
wheels, there was a large development, in Canada, which was put up for something
like the Olympics, or World's Fair.  As I recall, in one of the designs, the 
units were octagonal pre-cast cement, which were finished and trucked to the 
site, where they were essentially stacked like a honeycomb.  The visual look of 
the exterior was pleasing enough.  It should be possible to find information on 
this because, at the time, there was publicity about how there was going to be 
an extensive use of prefinished units of various design and manufacture, so it 
looked like a concerted effort of a rather well organized manufactured housing 
industry.