55 years of building state of the art prefab, system-built homes in Japan.
- 60% or more of those homes are made of recycled material.
- Lumber is acquired from Finland because of their top forest-management policies.
- Every single tree is used in its totality.
- Ceramics are heavily used (sand and limestone).
- All the details of a house design from bathroom fixtures to roofing material to door-knobs is determined before building.
- Everything that needs to be fabricated, wall panels, flooring sections, windows, is a CAD file sent to a factory.
- Basic structure is erected in a day.
- Completion of the house including landscaping is done in a month.
It is very hard to gather any information on Misawa, Sekisui and so on (Japanese websites being stuck in 1994).
It absolutely blows my mind that sustainable, healthy system-built homes exist for almost 60 years in a country, and are completely inexistent in countries in desperate need of exactly that!
I’d rather have Misawa homes than Sony PlayStations, 10,000%.
But we live in a world where a billionaire thinks he’s on top of challenges by buying a rotten network of mind farts.
Goddamn it’s frustrating.
(the book is called The Japanese Dream House by Azby Brown)