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It seems like a ton of these prefab projects show up on HN, but does anyone know of any that produce houses/structures that actually… look nice? It seems like everything I’ve seen on here have all the aesthetics of a shipping container. (Or, to be more on the nose, a concrete box).

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That's a good point, hopefully this inflatable form method could yield structures that "look good" (whatever that means) but seems they'd need to get good at quickly producing/customizing the inflatable forms into ones that "look good". Maybe they could steel reinforce it too?

edit: point being - it seems easy to pump concrete into a form, but the problem is making forms - at scale - that look/function a certain way, and in this case are made from an inflatable.

Many quick build and prefab projects are intended to be used to provide rapid (short/medium term) housing for people affected by natural disasters (or man made ones, for that matter).

I'm not at all impressed in this particular one, but in general it matters not what the aesthetics are when it's a survival issue.

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