Tagged “building”

Covers a lot! Approximate cost breakdowns, on people's desire for customisation, on transport costs of materials (you can't ship prefab concrete slabs across the country).

Includes a handy one-liner on why things aren't improving:

The combination of consumer tastes, low dollar value per volume building components, and the complexity of buildings inhibit efforts to scale.

We crush and burn rock, and then re-constitute it at a time and place and in a form of our choosing.

? Like coffee or pancake mix, it's “instant stone—just add water!”

Isn't that basically magic?