BEANS FOR HOUSES
Beans for making houses was visualised by Mr E, Rowse, principal of the Architectural Association’s School of Planning and Research for National Development. Declaring that houses of the future would be made in a factory. ho said that we could not go on indefinitely robbing the earth of material to build houses. In the future we should turn to crops. Already substitutes for conventional building material had been discovered. Soya beans were being converted into plastics, and proving cheaper than steel. When houses were made in the factory all that would be necessary outdoors would be the laying of the concrete foundation. The rest of the house, made in the factory, would be taken to the site to be assembled. Houses built in this way would take only a third of the time to build, and the construction of the building could be carried out entirely independently of weather conditions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 11
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153BEANS FOR HOUSES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 11
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