Cohousing-L Mailing List: Junkyards into cohousing?

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

King Collins' idea about turning a motel into cohousing inspired me consider
the ultimate manifestation of car cultch -- the junkyard.

Those of us who loved the look of settlements in the "Road Warrior" movies
would be in heaven!  I mean, think of the raw materials all around you -- all
you'd need is a few blow torches and you could carve out all scrap metal
building modules you could ever want.

You'd probably want to have a high ratio of metal sculptors in your cohousing
group, but, hey, a lot of metal sculptures I've seen manifest great humor.
 Metal sculptors would be fun folks to have at those grinding meetings where
people endlessly debate beige vs teal blue couches in the common house living
room.  In junkyard coho, you'd just use car seats anyway -- any color you
wanted, as long as it came from your current inventory.

Weren't people back in the 60's using triangular pieces of car hoods to make
geodesic domes?  There ya go -- deep practicality.  Course, the R value of
car hoods is probably about a minus 10, but oh well.  To heat the metal domes
you could drain the crankcases of all those cars and burn the oil.  A little
smoky and polluting you say?  Well, what appropriate hommage to an auto
graveyard.

And, you'd never need to buy expensive lego toys for the children.  Just get
out the old socket set and pull some parts off an old hulk.  Better yet, let
the kids do it -- instead of useless lego skills the'd be in training to be
auto mechanics.  And the old cars could make great playhouses -- those that
were free of sharp edges of course.

I think there are some real possibilities here, don't you?  Get your realtor
to go price a junkyard today.  


Mike M
Boulder