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Travelodge: revolutionizing your average hotel

Take a look at this photograph for a moment.

It looks like an average harbor or other place where big amounts of shipping containers are stacked, not? Well nothing is what it seems because this is actually a hotel in the making.

Yes indeed, with the use of shipping containers this Travelodge hotel is the first one to be built so incredibly fast. In fact, it was built in just 20 days. Located in Uxbridge, a London outskirt, this hotel offers a rough 120 rooms rated at 50 pounds each.

Some minor point about the thing is that the containers are brand new, it would have been fabulous if they had been used before. But anyway, Travelodge says that it is possible to melt the containers to steel if it’s broken down. But why isn’t it possible to reuse them just as your regular container? Hmmm.. anyway, here’s a picture of what it looks like right now.

Looks pretty cool, especially if you keep in mind that the thing has been built in under a month time!

-jdh

FabPreFab: Modernist PreFab Housing!


(pictured is kitHAUS’s K3 Module)

Morning All,

SuperForester Jon, (who is truly a fountain of great information,) just sent us word of FabPreFab.

In a nutshell, FabPreFab is a newsletter you can sign up for that keeps you informed about Modernist Prefabricated Housing.

Like the Zero House.

Or Alchemy Architects weeHouses.

Or H-Haus’s Cube Series

Prefabrication = Made ahead of time.

So much time and energy is saved when housing is factory constructed, then shipped and assembled in place. Truly, a build that could take months and months could be done over a week, or even hours. Prefab is smart and clean.

Watch:

There you see the 2.5 hour build time for the Hive B-Line prefab house. Yes, more time was needed to build the foundation, but a two and a half hour assembly time? Cripes, that’s fast!

Want to be on the FabPreFab list? Click here.

Love to all the thinkers thinking.

Special thank to Jon for the great intel.

-Team SuperForest