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Old 04-19-2021, 10:38 PM   #75 (permalink)
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Unfortunately apartments are usually not built with the future in mind.

Were I building an apartment complex, I'd install a means of charging EVs and a way to bill for the service.
While we are 'were I'-ing.....

The goal would be a structure far cheaper, with superior thermal performance; with the hidden agenda of making a spiritually uplifting place to inhabit (ha! They'd never see that coming.) This is from a 2001 interview with Michael Graves



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16:36 and I said I was only interested if we
16:38 could build it in brick and stucco and
16:41 vaults and domes which a couple of
16:43 Masons can do and it is an amazing
16:45 process and this way you sleep under a
16:48 dome not on a piece of horizontal
16:51 concrete slab and it's just magical what
16:55 you can do and these Mason's are happy
16:59 as as anything because they get to do
17:01 their craft and so I'm really pleased
17:03 about that...
Check out the scaffolding around the Washington Monument he designed for it's restoration.They didn't want to tear it down.

Bucky Fuller predicted housing would become a service you lease, like a telephone.
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