Back when I posted Fugly Houses (follow the link for the full flavor) wherein an entire subdivision in Britishland was ordered to be demolished because of “foundation issues”, I said this about the demolished houses:
“However, I will not offer odds that the rebuilt houses will look any different from their predecessors.”
And sadly, my prophecy has proved to be correct:
Ugh. They look like the cell blocks in a Level 3 penitentiary.
Do people actually pay money to live in these houses? Or are these government subsidized?
Solar on the roof it looks like. I think that’s terrible. Putting holes in a new roof to mount solar panels and then if it snows or one breaks you have to clean them / swap them up on the roof.
If you must do Solar – get a rack in your back yard that swivels and you can clean it when it snows, swap the panels easily if they break and not have holes in your roof.
I guess greenies are not the smartest.
yes, people pay good money from the bank to live in these cookie cutter boring houses. It started with Levitt Town after WW2. They’re building a condo complex a couple towns away from me that I pass regularly. They all look the same so if you get deep in your cups some night, you’re bound to be trying to get into the wrong condo. On top of that they are all the same industrial boring, soul sucking not in a good way, gray. talk about drab and miserable.
They look like they were designed by the same person who designed the Hotel pieces for a monopoly game. little square blocks, produced by the thousands on an assembly line. I’m curious about how the connecting Bridge at the second level beteem the units on the left works. Is that one room for one of the houses or a big closet for both? Based on the person on the far left for scale they don’t look that big. two rooms a floor and a narrow staircase on one side.?
When you demand absolute affordability the trade off is customization.
You can have it fast, cheap, good – pick any two.
Coffee’s right about solar panel placement, get em on the ground where they can be maintained properly.
Section 8 “affordable” housing.
Unfortunately here in the UK housing space in the places people want to live is very limited: small homes are the rule unless you want to pay squillions. The amount of immigration – legal and illegal – does not help.
All that’s missing from those grim “dwelling structures” is the high walls covered by razor wire.
Those things – or at least one of them – should be placed on some kind of historic register, as a warning to future generations.
Now they’re taunting arsonists with good taste in architecture