¶ Now House
Index Entry
Now House:
"While the domes, as already noted, were priced at $750 each, the total package with all its $17,000-worth of equipment amounted to $20,000. This ratio of $3,000 for the environmental dwelling shells and skin to $20,000 for the totally and luxuriously equipped living facility–approximately 1 : 7–is very close to the international ocean racing yachts’ bareboat to sailaway equipped cost ratio. A modern 37-foot-overall length one-tonner at $30,000 for the bare boat with full transoceanic racing equipment, sails, instruments, et al., costs approximately $200,000. The reason the bareboat yacht hulls cost so much more than the bare Now House domes is due to all the stresses, strains, and other formidable conditions which must be coped with by the boat and their lightweight, high-strength equipment while operating at the interface of the airocean and the waterocean. The conditions are not present in the land installations…
“The ¥2 Now House will be ready for exhibit by August 28, 1977, and will soon thereafter become publicly available as the air-deliverable, only rentable, world-around dwelling machine service right on its scheduled 50th birthday.”…
¶ Citations
- ACCOZXODATING HUIAN UNSETTLEMENT; pp.13-14; 20 Sep’76
