Home sweet hummer
Los Angeles-based architecture and design firm HplusF unleashes the Hummer Home, a prefab housing concept that makes good, green use out of GM's discontinued line of gas-guzzling luxury vehicles.
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Noting the demise of the nearly architectural Hummer led HplusF to inquire as to its dimensions and components. Upon confirming that the Hummer sheet metal (termed a 'Body in White'), consisting of primary sheet metal components assembled into a body shell, was of a structural quality which could be adapted to a capsule type dwelling, HplusF created the ‘Hummer Home.’ Consisting of eight identical Hummer body shells supported by a prefabricated steel armature, the space is utilized in the manner of an industrially produced object, with 12 volt electrical systems, OEM refrigeration, heating, and media components, and ingenious use of the nooks and crannies generated by the pressed steel enclosures. Optional geothermal storage tanks, photo-voltaic cells, and soy insulation will complete a sustainable project which has, at its core, the recycling of an automobile plant and the resuscitation of its supply chain.
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