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Prefab City

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Stelco Catalogue Housing Barton Myers Associates | 1969 | Steel housing prototype Prefab Score

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on-site/off-site ratio

use infrastructure

Unit Components (-)

degree of prefabrication

use residential

Axonometric View of Cluster

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permanent temporary

Exterior Panels

custom standard

Methodology: Using a structure of steel columns,

Opening

Fixed

modules based on a 3-foot-sqaure dimension Interior Panels

could be filled in. Units of Prefabrication: Steel column sections,

Opening Fixed

sandwich panels of prefinished steel and Framing Members

catalogue ordered parts.

Joist

Fixed Fixed Ceiling Floor Fascia

Column

Edge beam

Structure: Steel column sections, hollow tube beams, and a number of different sandwich panels with a urethane core for horizontal and vertical surfaces. Delivery: Catalogue ordered parts could be assembeled by two unskilled persons in just an hour per square frame.

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