Dante Bini to Build Self-Erecting House in Less than 60 Minutes

http://hdmag.com/hospitalitydesign/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001524750

-- Tomorrow morning, in St. Helena, California, architect Dante Bini will attempt to build a 4-ton, 600-square-foot house through the use of robots alone. Spurred by recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami, and the Pakistan earthquake, Bini has developed a super low cost self-erecting house that can be constructed in less than an hour and can be easily moved from location to location—enabling emergency workers to build a temporary city in days.

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hahahaha

sounds interesting...I would like to see video of this..

to death in Pakistan - with no shelter :(

and I would love that self-cleaning variety myself :)

who will most likely freeze or starve and I can't help but wonder...why don't we put those billions spent on killing people to better use? I think that sheltering and helping those folks would more than win the hearts and minds of the folks who are vulnerable to the appeal of terrorists.

Pinpoint accuracy rice-bombs.... Humongous B-52 strikes of clothes and fuel... "Rolling Thunder" food drops.... Skies black with C-130's

Wait... wait... Naaaawwww. We can't do it. Not enough money or military might.

Actually... not enough soul - enough balls - enough humanity - to do the job.

would have handed us Osama's head on a platter....

THAT would be a war strategy that would work.

If only...

:(

more info.

600 squares is not that big, but I'm sure it would be a help for those that need housing, like yesterday.

were mostly 800 square feet and that today we are mostly building 2400 square feet. It would certainly be big enough for me.

if there aren't any construction jobs because those jobs were taken by robots?

Retrain? Yeah, right.

Taking jobs away from American robots.

:rofl:

:D

not building homes so if this "little" house were kept for them then it would be providing extra jobs in the factory manufacturing these houses.

note that this is temporary housing/buildings. Construction jobs wouldn't be taken - unless cities/states/countries decided not to ever rebuild - just to use the small temporary housing as permanent to the city/area.

:rofl:

I can't find it on either website.

Not that St. Helena is very big, but I expect he's doing it out a ways --maybe on one of the vineyards.

the project is over the hills from us. I will check out the web site.

i thought these were cute

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

robot workers?

are there to be no jobs left at all for the worker?

But at least the robots will have a nice house.

assuming the house isn't ugly as sin, that is...

He worked on "seedpod" geodesics that unfolded from small, truck deliverable packages. Also airlifted fully assembled geodesics by helicopter (geodesics have unbeatable strength/weight ratio). I've often thought how much sense it would make to have a cluster of seedpods outfitted as a field hospital, airliftable to anywhere in the world...geodesics didn't catch on because they don't LOOK like traditional buildings, so people don't want them. Fuller never stopped working on ways to make habitats from minimal materials, but the construction industry wouldn't touch any of his ideas.

and construction still relies on WOOD, one of the most frail materials around, to build structures, especially when we have so many alternatives.

I LOVE the instant housing so many people have come up with, especially in terms of dealing with crisis and imminent need situations.

We don't NEED 3000 sf of living space, 600 sf is enough.

To provide housing and structures with elements integrated into pre-fabricated walls, such as plumbing, electric and communications makes incredible sense, but, of course that would take specific tradespeople out of the loop to a certain extent?

But, in modern world, changes and evolution happen.. as well it should. Status quo isn't always the best course of action.