This what i think this is my opion only ok ok. First i should say that this will not be the only new way to build as yah go big for city good homes no. I dont see this to catch on there is not a lot to see In the futher we will see how it goes.you need special people to install these things and all these machines all sow a other big one people want options no one goes with one company to build home this is the only one no you have like 100 or more or less were you live we dont have one bank to chose from we have options we can have what we want to go with and pull out to something new what we want
How do you leave structures perform during natural disasters specifically tornadoes and hurricanes? What keeps your Lego towers from toppling over are they welded, is there any support beams?
There would quickly become an aftermarket of modular facades to make these buildings LOOK like historic buildings. Then, when you need a different building in the same place, you could rearrange the facade modules and easily have a new building of the same style. Hell, even the graffiti could be reused, just in a different spot on the building.
Interesting point! They could be really cool to customize in all kinds of ways. People certainly customize their homes and cars plenty already; the standardization could really facilitate an industry around mass customizations.
@@kevinwelsh7490 I'm guessing that at least some graffiti artists (and possibly even taggers) will learn to stay within the confines of individual panels once they see the panels have been rearranged. They like to see their work last as long as possible.
I think that most issues with this idea will be solved over time - they are just engineering problems. Well implemented, it can change the way we build.
nah its much more of a political problem. zoning is at the heart of almost all the housing / construction problems around the us :\. People can engineer incredible structures relatively cheaply but your just not allowed to build hardly anything anywhere people want to live or work.
Not only logistic problems, but wear and weather will make this idea unsustainable.... When they dismantled the ABM HQ site in North Dakota, the modules were sold off and sent away. Not exactly the method proposed by this concept, but the obstacles presented were similar. Ignoring the craftsmanship that built the Cities, is another item that needs to be examined by those who offer solutions to modern American living arrangements.....
@@kevinwelsh7490 'nobody' wants this because it would actually bring down the prices of houses in the cities. they wouldn't use this building style in other places as families who live in the countryside or suburbs tend to stay living there longer
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 Don't tell me 😂😂 everytime i hear the class evil laugh(Muahahah muahahah) i dont take it seriously. But thos dude WITH HEIRS got me shitting my pants.
If the STC rating is not currently satisfactory, adjustments can be made to reached desirable STC ratings. Trial and error with experience until results are achieved. Heat retention is either currently operating well or also can be improved with time and newer materials. These two issues seems easier to achieve. The big game changer is the RED 6 modular design. Very impressed and want to see more examples with time. Great work❤️
Noise cancelling panels that also serve as insulation is pretty nice. But the design to do so efficiently and with low mass is a little troubling for my engineering ignorant mind. I'm thinking about those triangle things in the quietest room, but sandwiched inside the wall panels with a bit of space between them, whatever the appropriate distance turns out to be.
As a home builder, I've dreamt of lego style modular construction for decades! This is far beyond what I've imagined! Great stuff! I'd still like a smaller scale module that 1 human could handle.
I'm a structural engineer. While modular construction is interesting and has certainly captured a market, what the video fails to mention is there's a premium to modularity and what's been shown has significant limits; you can't just stack them indefinitely. What they have is a two-storey demountable classroom and that's fantastic, but let's not get carried away here.
I am not a structural engineer. What is the premium that was never mentioned ? Also, why doubt multi story structures even though the video shows the sky scraper in china? Is your concern with the practicality of disassembling a structure of that scale? Just arguing for knowledges sake :)
Modular set crew foreman here - we build hotels modular. As high as 6 stories tall we’ve done massive buildings. This isn’t anything new and all the attachment issues have for the most part been solved
Wish they would have mentioned how high they can stack them. Sometimes you only have a small area of land available, so you have to build up, can these be safely stacked 10 high? 50? How do elevators work with these when you start going more than a couple of levels up?
To have such tall buildings you need a strong foundation and an aerodynamic shape specially if it's a stand alone amongst shorter ones wich calls for more land ironically
A standard intermodal container is 2.44 m (8') wide × 12.19 m (40') long × 2.90 m (9'-6") high. The corner posts are typically 10 cm (4") tubular steel with the cross beams being of similar tubular steel size. While container ships can stack intermodal containers 10-12 levels high (dead loading), for human occupation you'd likely be limited to perhaps 8-10 floors to take into account "live loading" (human movement) within the building. Anything higher would likely require custom structural reinforcement and support. Vertical service plenums such as elevator shafts, stairways and HVAC/plumbing could easily be modularized to fit the modular structure itself. Then there's seismic and wind anchoring issues to deal with.
@@MelioraCogito those social containers are beign build for 15 years at least. All beams are open profiles made by cutting from flat sheet metal (laser/plasma) of thickness 3-6mm (depend of design and designation) then bend on press brakes - those are not closed rectangular/square beams. Stacking up i would say max 5 levels. Imho that long frames are not practical with assembling, better would be some shorter, length-to-width ratio should be 3:1, max 4:1
@Ed nice thought about the elevator, but do you remember movie 'the baby' in the construction building the lift was temporary.. So lifts could be made in which a lego structure could be elevated.
Something that wasn't mentioned in the video... what if you built a home and then decided to move. With this lego system you could literally take the house with you to your new location and then just reassemble it. this has amazing long term benefits!
I'm pretty sure they don't just plop them on top of the ground without bolting them down to the ground. This modules would be perfect in the south where seasonal hurricanes and flooding occurred since they could just raised this modules up a few feet.
We have screws, we can make bigger, stronger, longer screws until we hit the limit of the material itself. The problem isn't that they'll be picked up, it's that they'll be shredded. But that already happens with our existing low quality infrastructure. What does survive the storms gets demolished by contractors eventually.
The lack of customization might lead towards its failure in residential homes, however I can see it being used in poorer countries like Africa for schools. Seeing entire cities made up of these bland bricks is unlikely but the manufacturers got the right idea of recyclable buildings.
This whole concept reminds me of Chrushevka in the Soviet Union, where they build modular apartments in a few weeks, how that turned out, well you can come to eastern Europe and admire our beautiful cities. While I understand the benefits of this approach, people would not want to live in this almost dystopian environment.
I think you can make a more stylish facade on steel frames than on concrete blocks. Easier to hook stuff on it, and there is more space left after reaching structural integrity demands.
There are small-scale versions of this idea posted on RUclips. Two that impressed me were stacked container apartments. The one I preferred used setbacks in one end of the container, fully glassed, to make walled sunporches. Nifty. Doable! Not dreary!
This is a pretty great idea, and a start in the right direction. In line with moveable buildings, I hope we also include plans for rehabilitation of the land where the buildings used to be on. Also, as a person living within the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes happen often, I'm just wondering if these modular buildings can survive frequent earthquakes, and up to what magnitude they can withstand. Another thing I'm curious about is the material they use and how environment friendly the production of the frame is.
It hits me when i realise how i've thought of things like this before without ever watching a video or seeing anything like this before. That shows that im on the right track
This is brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for. I will use these to build my admin block, innovation centre, workshops and labs for my Regenerative Resource Hubs. If the price is right it's exactly the strategy I want because I need sustainable buildings and modular flexibility.
This concept existed even before lego (not identical but there) of using simple cheap adaptable buildings to facilitate city development. This method has even more potential as now you can go vertical and change location. Frankly its about time we got here as this is a great reuse of obsolete poorly planned megastructures and will prevent future waste which we need desperately both in terms of concrete scarcity and climate change not to mention making construction so much easier which was a long overdue improvement too. Cities cannot be inert- thriving cities since ancient history were not inert though the people couldn’t pick up block buildings they tailored the layout and use of them to achieve the next best thing while balancing conflicting needs and staying cautiously flexible for the unforeseen because humans are awful at predicting the future.
Soon we can do this in just 24 hours or less rather then 12 days. House construction will see a lot of innovations in the coming years, prefab, and 3d printing. And believe me, character for a structure of a house or building is still important, it has to look apart rather then looking all the same.
What we forget is that these parts are only a percentage of total building materials - what about the insulation? Windows, Facade? Steel-Frame Containers also need to be substantially upgraded with different materials to reduce noise and condensation problems. Prefab works good with elements, these 3D Modules only work in special use-cases (i.e. we need 300 hotel rooms).
LAUSD (Los Angeles) has a long history of using movable buildings. These were each generally 2 classrooms per building with a monoplane roof. They were trucked in complete, laid on the asphalt paving, and, though it didn't happen very often, could be and sometimes were taken out and trucked out to another school. They were called bungalows. When I was in elementary school, long, long ago, maybe a fourth of the classes were in bungalows.
When you have so many segments on rethinking streets and neighbourhoods and places being "Charming" is a key component to those plans... Then you have this video saying: "Not everything needs to be charming" Even within the same series you are contradicting yourself. I like the idea of modular buildings and think ICF etc is really cool, and what more people should move to. I also think reconfigurable spaces are important, but I am not sold on THIS particular implementation. You absolutely need more than one block. Look at every survival game and what happens when you add a few more blocks to the ecosystem.
I would say trains and public transportation would be a better idea because they reduce space needed large interstates, parking lots, and driveway. But would a modular rail system for a low speed metro train be viable? Or would it be better to build a system of rails and roads with lots for prefab buildings.
Wasnt it the Soviet Union? Im not sure how we define “modular” but the way I see it Soviet block housing units are definietely prefab and probably modular.
Free think, thank you for bringing this episode and I think I can use a prefab home and it is better than the conventional homes in a lot of ways. But doing would be very difficult in this hedonistic world where utility has lost its value and looks matter more.
I have to admit, if you can disassemble them enough, you can recycle them/repurpose them easily too. Although, since I live in an area where I would rather live in an old stone building for thermal/insulation reasons, i think my area should build permanent buildings (and not modular) with "historical looking" facades that can be modular inside, as in... non specific construction, allowing businesses to swap and renters/owners to replace businesses.
The first question I had was about the plumbing. I've only seen this type of modular innovation in homes. I don't have a problem with any of this. It's just crazy that this type of structure exists. I wonder if this metal box would work in Arizona. Hmmm...
Waste plumbing is the “challenge”, especially for reuse. Waste usually uses gravity, so drainpiping would require holes in floors, compromising structure; and what if “next” application doesn’t need waste line holes there? Cruise ship industry already builds ocean liners with prefab staterooms using vacuum waste lines, which can and do fail!
Love this concept… it is something that I have thought about too. To complete the story of green though, I would like to see manufacturing localized/onshored instead of shipping to the US for completion. But a very cool concept and I wish that everyone could start thinking more sustainably. 👍😃
Althought i dont like square buildings, this is remarkable technology that will be extremely useful, quick construction is the ultimate technology for growth.
I think that as long as utilitarian components of many different businesses are considered, including the height necessary for warehouses (which this model does not support) or the width necessary for hospital halls to be able to transport patient beds and stretchers at high speeds, then perhaps a bigger model would be best if there is to be a standard model. Honestly, there could be a standard model for office space, hospital space, and warehouse space, with increasing sizes, respectively. Having three types would not muddy the waters too much at all, but might optimize the utility of these modular spaces.
imagine if the global leaders & decision makers put their minds together to pool resources so that "construction" can be this simple. what happens then is the current leaders lose their 40 years guaranteed work and are forced to adjust while jeopardizing that 40year career. this is how our world works, build things so that theres constant work to maintain it. in 50-100yrs from now, all those old ways of thinking will be dead and concepts like this video will be the norm. wish i can live to see it. great video, great concept and hope that this becomes more widespread.
thank you for the inspiration! because of this video, i can have topic for my research thesis to identify the critical success factors of implmenting modular "lego" construction in my country
I think this should mostly be aplied to office space need since they move more often depending on economic needs. Custom build homes should still be allowed in order to keep architecture as a cultural expression and memory in modern society
lets not forget that modular and made to gauge and assembly line is what made ford a world leader in cars in the first half of the last century. simpler the standardization, greater the opportunity .
The problem is that those buildings that are built and disassembled are lite and because they're offices people don't out anything heavy, but houses are going to be lines with tiles, marble, big refrigerator, washer and dryer, etc. So that when it's time to put on a truck, a crane won't be able to lift them
this is just a normal very "first reaction" comment on this video as an architect. If the future moves to these kind of cities, i would think that the cities, would just look so simple, and bland, cubes and squares, no fabulous buildings, no architectural beauties.
Living in a hurricane prone area, makes me wonder how natural disaster resistant they are. I'm afraid that they'd be a step back in safety for places with hurricanes, earthquakes, and so forth. And what about insulation? There didn't look to be a lot of room for good insulation to go in. Why have cheaper construction when you'll end up paying 2-3 times more in utilities. Don't get me wrong, it's a good idea and they make valid points on the sorts of needs they will be meeting, but I wonder about the other problems involved.
This is a brave attempt, the question is why. I see 2 types of changes. Type A: One space can be used for many years for many purposes according to that area, the most changes can be happened just inside, not the building structure for similar purpose, eg a shop space can be changed to another shop, or restaurant, a school can be changed to a library. In such changing, it seems no need to change the structure. So a modular building is interesting but not very necessary. Type B: a big function change, like change a school to a swimming gym center, or a power facility , that would be impossible even using the modular building blocks.
Interesting critique, valid points - there are definitely scenarios where this would not make sense. Some scenarios where it potentially could: 1) If the building simply costs less to produce modularly than it does with conventional methods and/or can be completed faster. For example, LA has recently had some success producing homeless shelters using modular construction where conventional projects were more expensive or took years to produce. www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-18/los-angeles-homeless-housing-project-vignes-street 2) Scenarios where you might want to completely remove the building. So while you might not want to convert a gym into a power facility, you might put a gym in a place and later want to put something completely different there; this would enable it to be disassembled quickly, and have the components still available if someone else wanted to start a gym someplace else, whereas with conventional construction you'd have to do a demolition, throw away all the materials, and start over.
@@freethink I agreed there’s many scenarios which your solution can be used for. The point is if the solution’s value was high enough to make people accept it widely. So you can find enough customers to roll forward the project. My concern is : A) Your proposed value is saving cost, like cut $1M to half. B) but modular components are naturally more expensive than 1 time parts, for you have to have more design for parts standards, reliability, assembly interface and assembly process requirements for training and training skilled workers. So that’s why a LEGO toy car cost much more than a traditional equivalent toy car. Then we can see the above 2 points are conflicting, how would you solve the conflict?
mass productions of prefab housing will solve so many problems, housing of the less wealthy, relocation and demolition costs in dense areas for govt projects, rising construction costs
24/06/2021: Last night a seaside condo in the Miami Florida area partially collapsed. Many floors of concreate, including the residents, pancaked to the ground. It will take weeks to dig out the bodies. Maybe, we can build better.
I’d build a home out of these. Then when I move ship my home to wherever I move. No need pay for a new home. Then if you want a bigger home, simply buy more lego’s.
OK. And you think that a cost of decomposition, transport and putting it together again would be worth it? Please remember that a lot of finishing (floors, walls, installations) would get demaged., like if you have a living room made of 2 such boxes and floor covered with a wooden floor. It would be good if you couldn't sell the house and just buy/build another one.
Biggest issue I can think of is generating revenues in a reliable way to ensure that these modular structures whether residential or commercial both contribute to and receive services in a commensurate way.
Old buildings in Germany especially from the medieval times are constructed to be reusable, it's fairly easy to disassemble a building and building the same at a Co.plete different spot. There are companies doing that, but this technique got widely lost and forgotten. Now slowly we start with this again. In theory you could do the same with stone buildings. So modular buildings were used widely a long time ago in a sense.
Maybe, but no one in their right mind is taking down a stone building of significant size just to relocate it and then rebuild it. They might however disassemble enough stones to deal with you for suggesting the idea to begin with..
I wonder how much it costs to manufacture these and also this is revolutionary for us this is incredible I wonder if they’ll make more shapes with the LEGOS
Of course. You can make an entire city modular and automate the assembly and disassembly. Have a city on the east coast for sunrise and on west coast for sunset.
Having the technology to do that is awesome, would an entire city of people actually agree to doing that on a regular basis? (Oops, that's sociology, not engineering) I can see building a mobile hydroponics structure to slide from one side of the city to the other, but the entire city is crazy.
I think this is a good idea but is it safe in extreme weather for like example Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or even earthquakes. Also if were to build skyscrapers with them they would need to support the entire building so it doesn't tilt or fall on itself. Apart from that I think its a very good idea.
Do you think modular construction will catch on?
This what i think this is my opion only ok ok. First i should say that this will not be the only new way to build as yah go big for city good homes no. I dont see this to catch on there is not a lot to see In the futher we will see how it goes.you need special people to install these things and all these machines all sow a other big one people want options no one goes with one company to build home this is the only one no you have like 100 or more or less were you live we dont have one bank to chose from we have options we can have what we want to go with and pull out to something new what we want
yes
I'd certainly hope so.
Anything but carrying sheet rock.
How do you leave structures perform during natural disasters specifically tornadoes and hurricanes? What keeps your Lego towers from toppling over are they welded, is there any support beams?
Don't get me along they look impressive just there's a lot you're not telling us?
This will be very encouraging for underdeveloped countries to quickly build world standard hospitals, thanks for the insightful update.
That's a great point. It could really help standardize construction and bridge the gap between developed and developing countries in facilities.
YES!
That depends on if its Hurricane/Typhoon proof. But overall, great idea.
Yes i agree especially those who were directly hit by Typhoon Rai (Odette)
That destroyed the homes of millions of our country men in the Philippines
Yes especially in India which is mostly build or depending on railways
There would quickly become an aftermarket of modular facades to make these buildings LOOK like historic buildings. Then, when you need a different building in the same place, you could rearrange the facade modules and easily have a new building of the same style. Hell, even the graffiti could be reused, just in a different spot on the building.
Interesting point! They could be really cool to customize in all kinds of ways. People certainly customize their homes and cars plenty already; the standardization could really facilitate an industry around mass customizations.
modular graffiti, has to conform the 2.4 meter module.
@@kevinwelsh7490 I'm guessing that at least some graffiti artists (and possibly even taggers) will learn to stay within the confines of individual panels once they see the panels have been rearranged. They like to see their work last as long as possible.
@@GrantSR don't you know; graffiti artists by definition color outside the lines. this video is a brave new world...
Excellent idea, because otherwise everything would look blandly similar and aesthetically sterile.
I think that most issues with this idea will be solved over time - they are just engineering problems. Well implemented, it can change the way we build.
nah its much more of a political problem. zoning is at the heart of almost all the housing / construction problems around the us :\. People can engineer incredible structures relatively cheaply but your just not allowed to build hardly anything anywhere people want to live or work.
Not only logistic problems, but wear and weather will
make this idea unsustainable....
When they dismantled the ABM HQ site in North Dakota,
the modules were sold off and sent away.
Not exactly the method proposed by this concept,
but the obstacles presented were similar.
Ignoring the craftsmanship that built the Cities,
is another item that needs to be examined
by those who offer solutions to modern
American living arrangements.....
this technology has been around for decades. nobody wants such a building except for novelty.
@@kevinwelsh7490 'nobody' wants this because it would actually bring down the prices of houses in the cities. they wouldn't use this building style in other places as families who live in the countryside or suburbs tend to stay living there longer
I'll be playing with them.
That jeff bezos laugh clip had me on my sides
You gotta admit, it's the most evil laugh ever
Same!
xD
The hair make it hard to recognized him for me lol.
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 Don't tell me 😂😂 everytime i hear the class evil laugh(Muahahah muahahah) i dont take it seriously. But thos dude WITH HEIRS got me shitting my pants.
“This is a LEGO”
*Shows off-brand toy that is not LEGO*
Probably not wanting to get sued by Lego
@@andrewmagdaleno5417 or cheaper stock footage
@@theobserver9131 wanna fight?
Someone in Germany actually got sued for this by LEGO, because if everyone calls these bricks LEGOs then they have to change their brand name
@@SumriseHD British people don't call them LEGOs, it's like rice, uncountable, we just say lego.
I'm scared to ask how the noise isolation in that structure is. So many other issues, but it is a good idea.
Not just noise, also heat insulation.
Probably similar to 2x6.
Yah a lot is just not now yet and more would need to come out to make a choice
If the STC rating is not currently satisfactory, adjustments can be made to reached desirable STC ratings. Trial and error with experience until results are achieved.
Heat retention is either currently operating well or also can be improved with time and newer materials.
These two issues seems easier to achieve. The big game changer is the RED 6 modular design.
Very impressed and want to see more examples with time.
Great work❤️
Noise cancelling panels that also serve as insulation is pretty nice.
But the design to do so efficiently and with low mass is a little troubling for my engineering ignorant mind.
I'm thinking about those triangle things in the quietest room, but sandwiched inside the wall panels with a bit of space between them, whatever the appropriate distance turns out to be.
As a home builder, I've dreamt of lego style modular construction for decades! This is far beyond what I've imagined! Great stuff! I'd still like a smaller scale module that 1 human could handle.
Great idea
Even one person needs space to move about and not feel claustrophobic. But hey maybe all you need is a 1' x 1' x 6' standing rest/sleep chamber.
As a human, I will say...no thanks.
@@ramsaybolton9151 you are free to do so.
@@theobserver9131 until the government regulations get involved.
A lot of places including Brasil is using containers for living places, bars, clinics and so on. They are cheap when bought used ones, insulated, etc.
I'm a structural engineer. While modular construction is interesting and has certainly captured a market, what the video fails to mention is there's a premium to modularity and what's been shown has significant limits; you can't just stack them indefinitely. What they have is a two-storey demountable classroom and that's fantastic, but let's not get carried away here.
I am not a structural engineer. What is the premium that was never mentioned ? Also, why doubt multi story structures even though the video shows the sky scraper in china? Is your concern with the practicality of disassembling a structure of that scale? Just arguing for knowledges sake :)
But there are so many buildings that thrive as three stories -- especially building medium density in cities!
Why is their a limit? They are designed to be put in place of a shipping container on a ship and they can stack very high.
I am also worried about the structural stability such as Earthquake and Wind load capacity. Why not try steel structures?
Modular set crew foreman here - we build hotels modular. As high as 6 stories tall we’ve done massive buildings. This isn’t anything new and all the attachment issues have for the most part been solved
The video editing quality for this channel, I think, is the best I’ve ever seen.
Actually… the 2x4, or “eight in whatever color” is the holy grail of lego. :))
Wish they would have mentioned how high they can stack them. Sometimes you only have a small area of land available, so you have to build up, can these be safely stacked 10 high? 50? How do elevators work with these when you start going more than a couple of levels up?
To have such tall buildings you need a strong foundation and an aerodynamic shape specially if it's a stand alone amongst shorter ones wich calls for more land ironically
Your profile pic is the saddest thing. That poor kid
A standard intermodal container is 2.44 m (8') wide × 12.19 m (40') long × 2.90 m (9'-6") high. The corner posts are typically 10 cm (4") tubular steel with the cross beams being of similar tubular steel size.
While container ships can stack intermodal containers 10-12 levels high (dead loading), for human occupation you'd likely be limited to perhaps 8-10 floors to take into account "live loading" (human movement) within the building. Anything higher would likely require custom structural reinforcement and support. Vertical service plenums such as elevator shafts, stairways and HVAC/plumbing could easily be modularized to fit the modular structure itself. Then there's seismic and wind anchoring issues to deal with.
@@MelioraCogito those social containers are beign build for 15 years at least. All beams are open profiles made by cutting from flat sheet metal (laser/plasma) of thickness 3-6mm (depend of design and designation) then bend on press brakes - those are not closed rectangular/square beams. Stacking up i would say max 5 levels.
Imho that long frames are not practical with assembling, better would be some shorter, length-to-width ratio should be 3:1, max 4:1
@Ed nice thought about the elevator, but do you remember movie 'the baby' in the construction building the lift was temporary.. So lifts could be made in which a lego structure could be elevated.
Something that wasn't mentioned in the video... what if you built a home and then decided to move. With this lego system you could literally take the house with you to your new location and then just reassemble it. this has amazing long term benefits!
Yeah...and the cost of moving it would probably be so high as half of a new house.
This is a great premise. The only problem I can see with it is, a tornado or hurricane could probably uproot these things since they're removable.
I'm pretty sure they don't just plop them on top of the ground without bolting them down to the ground.
This modules would be perfect in the south where seasonal hurricanes and flooding occurred since they could just raised this modules up a few feet.
We have screws, we can make bigger, stronger, longer screws until we hit the limit of the material itself.
The problem isn't that they'll be picked up, it's that they'll be shredded. But that already happens with our existing low quality infrastructure.
What does survive the storms gets demolished by contractors eventually.
And yes, with design changes we can also bypass the material limit too, but that'll take a bit longer. Case in point, dynamic solids.
I live in Utah. Winds? Not a big deal. Ground Movement? Significant.
I'd like to know how they 'Stack Up' against that.
These modules will probably last as long as our crappy appliances
I’m open to this being built.
Wanna be built different?
But I am not open to you being open to this being built.
@@AksamRafiz ok. Cool
@@AksamRafiz I'm not open to you not being open to him being open to this being built
This channel deserves wayyyy more subscribers. Keep it up! Stellar content.
Cheers, thanks so much! Really appreciate it :).
The lack of customization might lead towards its failure in residential homes, however I can see it being used in poorer countries like Africa for schools. Seeing entire cities made up of these bland bricks is unlikely but the manufacturers got the right idea of recyclable buildings.
There is no country called Africa
@@tunxlaw hmmm.. so you deleted the south africa ?
This whole concept reminds me of Chrushevka in the Soviet Union, where they build modular apartments in a few weeks, how that turned out, well you can come to eastern Europe and admire our beautiful cities. While I understand the benefits of this approach, people would not want to live in this almost dystopian environment.
The School looked pretty good...
I think you can make a more stylish facade on steel frames than on concrete blocks. Easier to hook stuff on it, and there is more space left after reaching structural integrity demands.
I like it. Modular external facades would be nice too, so that not every building looks the same.
For sure. It'd be neat if those were replaceable on site so you could update the facade over time to keep a modern appearance.
There are small-scale versions of this idea posted on RUclips. Two that impressed me were stacked container apartments. The one I preferred used setbacks in one end of the container, fully glassed, to make walled sunporches. Nifty. Doable! Not dreary!
Which video?
This is a pretty great idea, and a start in the right direction.
In line with moveable buildings, I hope we also include plans for rehabilitation of the land where the buildings used to be on.
Also, as a person living within the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes happen often, I'm just wondering if these modular buildings can survive frequent earthquakes, and up to what magnitude they can withstand.
Another thing I'm curious about is the material they use and how environment friendly the production of the frame is.
The production quality of these videos are sooo top notch! Keep up the great work!
Gotta love this channel/series! Let's make this happen!
It hits me when i realise how i've thought of things like this before without ever watching a video or seeing anything like this before. That shows that im on the right track
Lots of water was used to make Concrete, Drywall, etc...this process may have ecological merit.
Water is the ultimate recyclable in nature. Until it isn't.
@@nullpoint3346 need to find easy, cheap and quick way to desalinate sea water
The editing of your content is suuuuper nice. Netflix worthy.
hmmmm 😏
Freethink you make videos about things I'm already thinking about!
This was predicted in “Ready Player One”
This concept should and must definitely be green lit everywhere cuz I know I do
This is brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for. I will use these to build my admin block, innovation centre, workshops and labs for my Regenerative Resource Hubs. If the price is right it's exactly the strategy I want because I need sustainable buildings and modular flexibility.
With this amount of reuse it’s not only helping environmental but also costly hope it becomes mainstream within the construction industry
Brilliant! This was imagined decades ago (e.g. Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock). Took the world long enough to catch up.
Amen
I think many people imagined it, including me
This concept existed even before lego (not identical but there) of using simple cheap adaptable buildings to facilitate city development. This method has even more potential as now you can go vertical and change location. Frankly its about time we got here as this is a great reuse of obsolete poorly planned megastructures and will prevent future waste which we need desperately both in terms of concrete scarcity and climate change not to mention making construction so much easier which was a long overdue improvement too.
Cities cannot be inert- thriving cities since ancient history were not inert though the people couldn’t pick up block buildings they tailored the layout and use of them to achieve the next best thing while balancing conflicting needs and staying cautiously flexible for the unforeseen because humans are awful at predicting the future.
Soon we can do this in just 24 hours or less rather then 12 days.
House construction will see a lot of innovations in the coming years, prefab, and 3d printing.
And believe me, character for a structure of a house or building is still important, it has to look apart rather then looking all the same.
The editing on this was exceptional. Well done editor.
What we forget is that these parts are only a percentage of total building materials - what about the insulation? Windows, Facade?
Steel-Frame Containers also need to be substantially upgraded with different materials to reduce noise and condensation problems. Prefab works good with elements, these 3D Modules only work in special use-cases (i.e. we need 300 hotel rooms).
this is actually one of the most brilliant concepts ive seen on this channel wtf
LAUSD (Los Angeles) has a long history of using movable buildings. These were each generally 2 classrooms per building with a monoplane roof. They were trucked in complete, laid on the asphalt paving, and, though it didn't happen very often, could be and sometimes were taken out and trucked out to another school. They were called bungalows. When I was in elementary school, long, long ago, maybe a fourth of the classes were in bungalows.
When you have so many segments on rethinking streets and neighbourhoods and places being "Charming" is a key component to those plans... Then you have this video saying: "Not everything needs to be charming"
Even within the same series you are contradicting yourself. I like the idea of modular buildings and think ICF etc is really cool, and what more people should move to. I also think reconfigurable spaces are important, but I am not sold on THIS particular implementation.
You absolutely need more than one block. Look at every survival game and what happens when you add a few more blocks to the ecosystem.
I like this. Not flashy, just very practical. The school district case study really sold it to me
Wow this is amazing. Reminds me of Jacque Frescos building designs
Just imagine sometime in the future they’re like “ight let’s move the entire neighborhood”
In case of the upcoming natural disaster, that would be quite useful actually
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What about highways? How can we make modular highways??
uhmmm
I would say trains and public transportation would be a better idea because they reduce space needed large interstates, parking lots, and driveway. But would a modular rail system for a low speed metro train be viable? Or would it be better to build a system of rails and roads with lots for prefab buildings.
America doesn't need any more highways.
Imagine moving cities, that'd be awesome
I always get reminded of The Stacks in Ready Player One when I see this.
Just a reminder, China is the first country that started modular on big projects.
Wasnt it the Soviet Union? Im not sure how we define “modular” but the way I see it Soviet block housing units are definietely prefab and probably modular.
GREAT use of that Ferris Beuler line😄🙌🙌🙌
Free think, thank you for bringing this episode and I think I can use a prefab home and it is better than the conventional homes in a lot of ways.
But doing would be very difficult in this hedonistic world where utility has lost its value and looks matter more.
In what world do you live exactly? Most modern architecture looks bland, beauty is a thing of the past.
I have to admit, if you can disassemble them enough, you can recycle them/repurpose them easily too. Although, since I live in an area where I would rather live in an old stone building for thermal/insulation reasons, i think my area should build permanent buildings (and not modular) with "historical looking" facades that can be modular inside, as in... non specific construction, allowing businesses to swap and renters/owners to replace businesses.
The first question I had was about the plumbing. I've only seen this type of modular innovation in homes. I don't have a problem with any of this. It's just crazy that this type of structure exists. I wonder if this metal box would work in Arizona. Hmmm...
Coat them in ultra reflective material
Theres very effective and cheap white paints out there
Thankyou youtube algorithm, just found this channel and I'm hooked
Waste plumbing is the “challenge”, especially for reuse. Waste usually uses gravity, so drainpiping would require holes in floors, compromising structure; and what if “next” application doesn’t need waste line holes there?
Cruise ship industry already builds ocean liners with prefab staterooms using vacuum waste lines, which can and do fail!
the soundtrack 🙌🙌🙌 who’s the composer, must know?!
lego is is a GEM (no doubt) ,, but the flow of the vedio was amazing,,,, was hooked up till the end,, with that piano tone and that lovely voice
Love this concept… it is something that I have thought about too. To complete the story of green though, I would like to see manufacturing localized/onshored instead of shipping to the US for completion. But a very cool concept and I wish that everyone could start thinking more sustainably. 👍😃
This is awesome, this can be a solution for the housing crisis!
It would be nice for many people to learn about modular housing.
Althought i dont like square buildings, this is remarkable technology that will be extremely useful, quick construction is the ultimate technology for growth.
I think that as long as utilitarian components of many different businesses are considered, including the height necessary for warehouses (which this model does not support) or the width necessary for hospital halls to be able to transport patient beds and stretchers at high speeds, then perhaps a bigger model would be best if there is to be a standard model. Honestly, there could be a standard model for office space, hospital space, and warehouse space, with increasing sizes, respectively. Having three types would not muddy the waters too much at all, but might optimize the utility of these modular spaces.
wow this videos are addicting I cant stop watching
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imagine if the global leaders & decision makers put their minds together to pool resources so that "construction" can be this simple. what happens then is the current leaders lose their 40 years guaranteed work and are forced to adjust while jeopardizing that 40year career. this is how our world works, build things so that theres constant work to maintain it. in 50-100yrs from now, all those old ways of thinking will be dead and concepts like this video will be the norm. wish i can live to see it. great video, great concept and hope that this becomes more widespread.
I live in Utah. Winds? Not a big deal. Ground Movement? Significant.
I'd like to know how they 'Stack Up' against that.
yeah, in california too
they'd have to make systems to help with earthquakes
Thats a terrible pun, you should be ashamed.
Probably the same way this ship works IJ0y01D33UM
This could help lower down the cost of hosting the Olympics significantly
Good point. They could be a great way to build facilities like housing for athletes.
Or we could use trains to transport people from where they are to where they need to be, and change zoning law, so housing can be affordable.
Absolutely brilliant. This is such an important technology. The world needs to adopt this asap.
Ideally, children could become more enlightened in beautiful "not boxy" architecture that is inspiring.
Love this! these don't just have to be rectangles you know. This is so cool!🤩
Now, this is a "reset" I can get behind.
thank you for the inspiration! because of this video, i can have topic for my research thesis to identify the critical success factors of implmenting modular "lego" construction in my country
I think this should mostly be aplied to office space need since they move more often depending on economic needs. Custom build homes should still be allowed in order to keep architecture as a cultural expression and memory in modern society
Just found your channel, but already in love with it
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forward operating bases need this sort of modularity just in case you need it for mess halls, communications, storage, sleeping quarters, hangers
lets not forget that modular and made to gauge and assembly line is what made ford a world leader in cars in the first half of the last century. simpler the standardization, greater the opportunity .
The problem is that those buildings that are built and disassembled are lite and because they're offices people don't out anything heavy, but houses are going to be lines with tiles, marble, big refrigerator, washer and dryer, etc. So that when it's time to put on a truck, a crane won't be able to lift them
this is just a normal very "first reaction" comment on this video as an architect. If the future moves to these kind of cities, i would think that the cities, would just look so simple, and bland, cubes and squares, no fabulous buildings, no architectural beauties.
Living in a hurricane prone area, makes me wonder how natural disaster resistant they are. I'm afraid that they'd be a step back in safety for places with hurricanes, earthquakes, and so forth. And what about insulation? There didn't look to be a lot of room for good insulation to go in. Why have cheaper construction when you'll end up paying 2-3 times more in utilities. Don't get me wrong, it's a good idea and they make valid points on the sorts of needs they will be meeting, but I wonder about the other problems involved.
How many times does a shipping container fall of a ship when the ship is moving underneath or going through a big storm. Very little.
This is a brave attempt, the question is why. I see 2 types of changes.
Type A: One space can be used for many years for many purposes according to that area, the most changes can be happened just inside, not the building structure for similar purpose, eg a shop space can be changed to another shop, or restaurant, a school can be changed to a library. In such changing, it seems no need to change the structure. So a modular building is interesting but not very necessary.
Type B: a big function change, like change a school to a swimming gym center, or a power facility , that would be impossible even using the modular building blocks.
Interesting critique, valid points - there are definitely scenarios where this would not make sense.
Some scenarios where it potentially could:
1) If the building simply costs less to produce modularly than it does with conventional methods and/or can be completed faster. For example, LA has recently had some success producing homeless shelters using modular construction where conventional projects were more expensive or took years to produce.
www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-18/los-angeles-homeless-housing-project-vignes-street
2) Scenarios where you might want to completely remove the building. So while you might not want to convert a gym into a power facility, you might put a gym in a place and later want to put something completely different there; this would enable it to be disassembled quickly, and have the components still available if someone else wanted to start a gym someplace else, whereas with conventional construction you'd have to do a demolition, throw away all the materials, and start over.
@@freethink I agreed there’s many scenarios which your solution can be used for. The point is if the solution’s value was high enough to make people accept it widely. So you can find enough customers to roll forward the project. My concern is :
A) Your proposed value is saving cost, like cut $1M to half.
B) but modular components are naturally more expensive than 1 time parts, for you have to have more design for parts standards, reliability, assembly interface and assembly process requirements for training and training skilled workers. So that’s why a LEGO toy car cost much more than a traditional equivalent toy car.
Then we can see the above 2 points are conflicting, how would you solve the conflict?
the title make me think in buildings with planned obsolescence, and the video in some extends too.
This makes so much sense.
Yay! Nigeria will be able to import fairly used houses.
Lol@ playing the ferris beuller clip that immediately came to mind as soon as I heard "niiiine times". Nice brah
I would love to see this make residential construction and add ons more affordable for those people who don't have a lot of money but need more space.
Nothing beats a well insulated 9 inch first class brick wall buddy
mass productions of prefab housing will solve so many problems, housing of the less wealthy, relocation and demolition costs in dense areas for govt projects, rising construction costs
u shld be having Millions of subs
cause u have the best content
24/06/2021: Last night a seaside condo in the Miami Florida area partially collapsed. Many floors of concreate, including the residents, pancaked to the ground. It will take weeks to dig out the bodies. Maybe, we can build better.
I’d build a home out of these. Then when I move ship my home to wherever I move. No need pay for a new home. Then if you want a bigger home, simply buy more lego’s.
OK. And you think that a cost of decomposition, transport and putting it together again would be worth it? Please remember that a lot of finishing (floors, walls, installations) would get demaged., like if you have a living room made of 2 such boxes and floor covered with a wooden floor. It would be good if you couldn't sell the house and just buy/build another one.
The roof would need to be modified for noise, but that seems really good.
Biggest issue I can think of is generating revenues in a reliable way to ensure that these modular structures whether residential or commercial both contribute to and receive services in a commensurate way.
0:05, that's actually not a lego
I'd love to hear to an argument of:
Portable Prefab vs 3DP
This is an awesome idea. This Hard Reset is definitely needed !
Old buildings in Germany especially from the medieval times are constructed to be reusable, it's fairly easy to disassemble a building and building the same at a Co.plete different spot. There are companies doing that, but this technique got widely lost and forgotten. Now slowly we start with this again. In theory you could do the same with stone buildings. So modular buildings were used widely a long time ago in a sense.
Maybe, but no one in their right mind is taking down a stone building of significant size just to relocate it and then rebuild it. They might however disassemble enough stones to deal with you for suggesting the idea to begin with..
I wonder how much it costs to manufacture these and also this is revolutionary for us this is incredible I wonder if they’ll make more shapes with the LEGOS
Of course. You can make an entire city modular and automate the assembly and disassembly. Have a city on the east coast for sunrise and on west coast for sunset.
Having the technology to do that is awesome, would an entire city of people actually agree to doing that on a regular basis? (Oops, that's sociology, not engineering)
I can see building a mobile hydroponics structure to slide from one side of the city to the other, but the entire city is crazy.
If this way of construction is cheaper than traditional, It will become popular
there is also the possibility that modular structures will drive the market for ornate interiors and distinctive exteriors .
It's nice to see some innovation in this area
I think this is a good idea but is it safe in extreme weather for like example Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or even earthquakes. Also if were to build skyscrapers with them they would need to support the entire building so it doesn't tilt or fall on itself. Apart from that I think its a very good idea.
You mean like a container ship moving underneath or going through a storm?