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The Capsules: A 12Plex Manufactured Horizontal Apt

Manufactured housing is half the price of site built AND can build dwellings as small as desired with no loss of efficiency, unlike the...

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Marketing Manufactured To The Professional Class

Much of the manufactured housing industry promotes itself by way of the affordability factor, by appealing to the fact that manufactured,...

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Mobile Home Park Retrofit

Mobile home parks [ parks constructed prior to the 1976 HUD code ] were often laid out as diagonal lots around 125' long x 40' wide or...

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The Courtyard Singlewide Duplex

A lot of 55+ communities feature the two bedroom duplex. This keeps home prices down and makes the point that they're intended for empty...

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Courtyard Manufactured Brochure

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Financial Analysis of Hypothetical 300 Unit Multi-family Value-Add Rehab

The 5 Bed 1 Bath Courtyard Mobile Home Subdivision

This design exercise demonstrates the versatility of the courtyard based mobile home. It has 2 bedrooms with queen size beds, and a...

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Mar 143 min read

Has Bad Design Cost Manufactured Housing $6 Trillion ?

ChatGPT estimates that from 1975 to today around 40,000,000 single family homes were built. By 1975 the doublewide had come into its...

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Feb 153 min read

Duplex Deluxe: The Luxury Precast Riad

In the previous post a design for a precast concrete Riad was presented for lots of size 45' x 90'. While the Riad designed for this...

robert carpenter

Feb 62 min read

Is the Precast Concrete Mediterranean Riad Style House the Ultimate Solution for Subdivision Developers in California?

The Mediterranean climate of California is a mix of warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. This unique environment offers both...

robert carpenter

Jan 234 min read

Case Study For 5 Acre / $5,000,000 Miami Lot

The real estate growth pattern for Florida tends to move in the direction away from its coasts. Much of the population lives in the ...

robert carpenter

Jan 72 min read

Analysis Of ONX Precast Florida Homes

ONX is revolutionizing home construction in the Florida market on several fronts. They are using off site construction methods AND...

robert carpenter

Jan 23 min read

The Riad Americanized W/ Garden And Pool

As explained in the previous post, a riad is characterized by its inward-facing architecture, designed to provide privacy and serenity....

robert carpenter

Dec 24, 20242 min read

The Riad Americanized

A riad is a traditional Moroccan house or palace characterized by its inward-facing architecture, designed to provide privacy and...

robert carpenter

Dec 13, 20243 min read

FourPlex Singlewide

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian brand gave clients homes which were 'just the right size' architectural historian Neil Levine...

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Sep 23, 20243 min read

A Trailer Park Pattern Language

If one gives a careful hearing to Christopher Alexander's classic work 'A Pattern Language', some questions might arise in regard to...

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Jul 19, 20244 min read

Turnkey Tenancy

Your tenants need never buy another stick of furniture again

VRT Resimercial Design Theory

The Capsules: A 12Plex Manufactured Horizontal Apt

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