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In a this issue we have the second of a series of articles on Nomadic Housing.  We received a ton of feedback on the past article and someone started a mailing list on the subject.  If you have further interest in the subject we suggest you join the list.  From: "Hans Henderson"<hans.henderson@pobox.com> Comments: Really liked the article by Colin Reedy: http://www.escapeartist.com/efam14/Nomadic_Housing.html

Buckminster Fuller ~ Innovator Inventor of the Dymaxion House

I have been interested in building a transportable living module for some time. Contacted Colin, and we have now started a discussion list for those interested in this topic.

If you could send out to your subscribers a short announcement, it would be great to get some n-way dialogue going! Note that as the list has literally just been born, it is currently very low volume.

Purpose of the "Transportable Home Design" email list:

To share ideas on small, transportable living modules, ideally aiming for environmentally friendly structures that could be built and transported at low-cost anywhere in the world.

Proposed shorthand term for such a module: "pod"

To view list archives on the Web:http://www.topica.com/lists/Dymaxion2000/read - 

To subscribe: Dymaxion2000-subscribe@topica.com - 

For more information on the article you can access it in Volume Two - Issue Number Six of our eZine. 

Global Nomadic Housing For Expatriates - Part One - Click Here -   Global Nomadic Housing for expats?  Why not?  Design your living space & workshop and take it with you...   Maverick designer Colin Reedy tells us how.  "I felt like I had enough information to start designing.   I searched for examples of prior efforts to modify shipping containers for housing.   The companies that sold the containers sometimes made modifications like windows or doors for the contractors to use at construction sites, but nothing interesting.   I found images from Hong Kong where people were living in containers set on huge metal frames in an apartment-like arrangement.   Not much had been done to the containers except stairway access.   The best examples I found were not for shipping containers, but from mid-century efforts at modular housing or “utopian” mass housing."