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The Phoenix, designed by Laing and built by themselves as well as partners McAlpine and Henry Boot, [3] looked much like an AIROH with a central front door. It was a two-bedroom in-situ preform design with steel frame, asbestos clad walls and an innovative roof of tubular steel poles with steel panels attached.
The consistent style of 1950s asbestos cement sheet housing, featuring plan forms and designs suited to local climatic conditions, unfenced allotments, open grassland and tropical specimen plantings, combine to make the West Island Housing Precinct a rare and relatively intact example of a housing precinct on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [1]
From its plant in Columbus, Ohio (the former Curtiss-Wright factory), the corporation eventually constructed 2,498 Lustron homes between 1948 and 1950. [3] The houses sold for between $8,500 and $9,500, according to a March 1949 article in the Columbus Dispatch —about 25 percent less than comparable conventional housing.
Asbestos is present in many homes built before 1981 in insulation, vinyl flooring, or spray-on surfacing materials. Crumbling insulation in an older home can indicate asbestos. Homes built before ...
A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. ... Wisconsin received about 100 or so Lustron homes, built between 1948 and 1950. [36] Appleton.
Twenty houses were originally built and all still remain. [1] The elevated asbestos cement clad houses have a plan form and design suited to local climatic conditions. The houses have three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and living room and a front porch. The design of the houses is in the shape of a "T" - hence giving the name of Type T Houses. [1]
Villa Undine in Binz on German Rugia Island, built in 1885 by Wolgaster Holzbau. Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum - Universal House, Mark 3, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement A 1950s metal UK prefab at the Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey.
Nearly 40,000 of these structures were built between 1946 and 1949 to house families. Asbestos cement , genericized as fibro , fibrolite (short for "fibrous (or fibre) cement sheet"; but different from the natural mineral fibrolite ), or AC sheet , is a composite building material consisting of cement and asbestos fibres pressed into thin rigid ...