Outline

I Figure:

Components must match the requirements detailed in PRINCIPLES.
(CP Supplement No.4, AD/10/71, p.628)

. . . that re-thinking the ‘life’ of a home becomes crucial.
. . . that comparing a hypothetical twenty-five-year house to the standard sixty-year build, maintenance expenditures as well as foundational changes defrays costs, with short-life housing ultimately costing 84.3 percent the amount of a conventional dwelling.
. . . that reconsidering this one entrenched convention, lifespan, generates the formal solution: a prefabricated steel housing system.
. . . that the structure is a rectangular shell called a ‘ring’, 1.8 or 2.7 by 6.3 metres in dimension, with a lifespan of forty to fifty years.
. . . that the inner living area, subdivided into cells, has a life of twenty to twenty-five years – hence the term ‘short-life housing’.
. . . that the factory-fixed rings could rest lightly on the site with a minimal foundation, reducing on-site labour as well as manufacturing time for ‘maximum speed of erection and removal’, while the inner cells allowed maximum variety for consumer choice.
. . . that the idea is that the parts could be assembled in kits for transport to the site on a single truck.
. . . that a wide range of fittings creates a variety of choices, checked only by a two-level limit imposed by the structure.