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2. Barndominium - Wikipedia

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   Due to their open-floor layout, barndominiums are highly customizable, [2] and can be constructed as one-story or two-story dwellings. In the United States , some companies purvey barndominium kits that are customizable relative to local or state building requirements and geographical elements, such as risks of earthquakes , snow load levels ...

3. Containerized housing unit - Wikipedia

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   A containerized housing unit, usually abbreviated as CHU (and sometimes called containerized living unit or CLU) is an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters. [1] Such containers can be transported by container ships , railroad cars , planes , and trucks that are capable of transporting intermodal freight transport cargo.

4. Quonset hut - Wikipedia

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   The most common design created a standard size of 20-by-48-foot (6.1 m × 14.6 m) with a 16-foot (4.9 m) radius [dubious – discuss], allowing 960 square feet (89 m 2) of usable floor space with optional 4 feet (1.2 m) overhangs at each end for protection of entrances from the weather. Other sizes were developed, including 20-by-40-foot (6.1 m ...

5. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   All models featured metal cabinetry, a service and storage area, and metal ceiling tiles. In the Westchester Deluxe models, the living room and master bedrooms featured built-in wall units. As an added option, customers were presented with the unique Thor-brand combination clothes- and dish-washer , which incorporated the kitchen sink.

6. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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   A similar approach was taken with the U.S. Quonset hut at the end of the war, with articles on how to adapt the buildings for domestic use appearing in Home Beautiful and Popular Mechanics. [ 9 ] In Aultbea on Loch Ewe, in Scotland, a large Nissen hut cinema built by the Royal Navy was donated to the village after the Second World War, and ...

7. Low German house - Wikipedia

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   The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...