In New York City, architectural firm Gluck+ is building what is probably the city’s “first steel-and-concrete apartment building”—“The Stack”, a seven-story residential block, would be constructed using a progressive modular building method.
The building would consist of 56 45-foot-long module apartments, which are stacked neatly one on top of another using cranes—much like how LEGO bricks are stacked up.
Each module apartment is constructed in a hanger-like factory in rural Pennsylvania, before being transported to the site for “assembling”—the entire process takes just 10 months, a whole six months faster than traditional construction methods.
According to Fast Co. Design, “The modular construction forces the architects to make all design decisions ahead of time, meaning that the building blocks are shipped to the site with all their features and interior partitions preconfigured. This cuts down on on-site operations and the many mistakes that inevitably arise from them.”
Watch the fascinating time-lapse video below to see how the individual apartments are slotted easily into place—do you think this is the first step towards standard housing production, just like the way cars are made now?
[via Fast Co. Design]