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 Wartime
housing shortages produced a deluge of new ideas on how to provide
shelter for civilian populations quickly and cheaply. One of the
more visionary ideas was Harvard professor Mark Wagner's 1944 proposal
for constructing igloos out of plywood sheets clad in stainless steel
and insulated with glass fibre with a heating/cooling unit stuck on
the button. Prof Wagner's rationale was that the igloos would be
cheap to build and that young couples could start off living simply in
a single igloo and then adding on more as they became more prosperous
and their family grew.
Think of it as a cross between a
Butlins chalet and a Habitrail for people. |
