SUSTAINABLE COLLAPSIBLE HOMES STEM-STORIES WITH ME EWING

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  stem stores issuing.

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  We're going to talk about something today and give you

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  a challenge center around something that is super important to

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  actually all of us, and that's called home.

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  Now. What we call home is very different from what

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  a lot of people in our own neighborhoods, in our

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  own city, in our own country, even around the world,

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  everyone has a very, definitely different definition of what home

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  means. But home is definitely a place that keeps ourselves

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  and our families safe.

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  But what happens if you actually live in a area

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  of the world that deals with tons of natural disasters?

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  All of those threaten or home?

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  And I wonder, what do we do with those areas?

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  And for those people and for those families, how do

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  we help them design and build homes that are more

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  sustainable to living in an environment that is conducive to

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  natural disasters?

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  Well, what if we could build and send them?

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  Ah, home.

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  It's a crazy idea, right?

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  Well, maybe not so much.

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  Actually, portable homes have been around for hundreds and hundreds

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  and hundreds of years.

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  We had people of our first nations here in our

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  own country.

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  actually had collapsible and moveable homes.

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  And you know the idea of mobile home.

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  Although this picture seems crazy, you know, this was an

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  idea that has been around for a very long time

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  because people are transient.

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  But we also want to think about the economic ideas

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  of this, you know, home, you know, like this or

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  ah, home like this is going to cost a substantial

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  a stent.

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  Substantial ble substantially.

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  Ah, lot less than an actual bay home that we're

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  used to seeing.

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  So the idea of mobile home being able to move

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  a house is an idea that's been around for a

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  very long time.

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  It's not a new idea, but how do we take

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  that idea and now actually make it new?

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  Well, in order to understand what we want to do

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  for the future, I think it's really always important to

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  understand where we've been.

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  It's important to me that we always look at historical

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  pieces and historical ideas and order for us to know

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  where we've been, where we're here today, and we're gonna

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  move things in the free future Now.

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  There was an amazing thinker back in the 19 hundreds

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  last century who of named Buck Minister Fuller.

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  And he was a pretty amazing I, uh, innovative thinker.

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  And he actually had this idea of how to make

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  a really cool, functioning, manufactured home manufactured home just means

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  it was pre made, are made in an off site

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  and, like, ship somewhere and reassembled.

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  So this is the idea that we're kind of building

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  on is how do we manufacture something that is able

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  to be shipped to another part of the world and

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  then reconstructed to actually be be a sister Substate The

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  substantial sustainable home?

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  Um, I love this.

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  In the 19 thirties, Uh, the dye, Maxie and House

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  was designed by Buck Minister Fuller on, then redesigned in

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  the 1940 1945.

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  And it was this really amazing.

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  Very futuristic for the time pre made manufactured home.

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  If you want to see one of these, if you

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  ever get a chance to go to the Henry Ford

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  Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, actually have one of these homes

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  inside the museum on, it's cool.

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  You can actually go inside tour and see all the

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  things that they thought about that actually helped make this

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  a very cool.

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  Have So what if we could do this?

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  What if we could manufacture?

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  Ah, home that could be collapsed and then shipped.

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  What if we took the idea of a collapsible box?

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  We see these ah, lot in storage stores.

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  And even maybe in our own house, he's actually come

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  flat. And then you pull open and makes a container.

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  What if we took that idea?

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  What if we took an idea of something around us

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  and actually put that towards a house?

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  Well, think about if we could make a structure that

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  was collapsible than it could be re, um, Bill after

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  it was shipped somewhere and then stacked.

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  What if we actually designed a house that was shipped

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  flat and then could be popped open?

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  I love this idea.

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  Imagine how many of these houses you can actually get

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  in a shipping container and shipped overseas.

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  This is actually an inflatable house that was designed and

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  actually was made of concrete.

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  But it was an idea that came out of How

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  do you produce affordable housing?

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  Mass produce 40 evil housing for people in need?

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  Um, the Geo dome are the dome house.

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  You know, all these panels, all these pieces shipped flat

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  and then reassemble as a protective home.

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  Love this idea.

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  Now, this is an inflatable garage.

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  But I love this idea.

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  What if you could create a house that was actually

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  inflatable that could be shipped in a small box and

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  then taken somewhere again?

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  This is the idea of a house that is sent

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  flat and then reassembled once it reaches its destination.

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  And then we could take the idea of creating all

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  those individual houses and actually creating a stack structure.

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  So what would you design?

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  What would Jew design as a house that is flat

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  that could be shipped somewhere and actually recreated?

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  You know, here's your challenge.

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  What I want you to do is create a model

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  of a house that can actually be shipped flat.

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  And a very simple idea of this is I have

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  a sheet of paper and we can actually create that

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  box structure.

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  No, I don't have this tape shot.

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  Here we go.

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  So we could actually build a model of a house

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  that could then be collapsed and shit very flat and

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  then reassembled once a god.

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  Now, this is a very, very simplified idea, But it'll

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  kind of give you the idea of what we're thinking

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  about. And also, you know, think about the available materials

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  that we could very rapidly use and ship.

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  So remember, always, while you're working on this, think about

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  the act engineer design process.

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  Ask yourself, what problem will we start trying to solve

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  while trying to find affordable housing, sustainable housing, manufactured housing

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  that we can actually shipped to an area of the

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  country that deals with natural disasters and is in a

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  struggling economy that would need the sport and help of

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  us? That imagine is the brainstorming.

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  Come up with this many ideas as you can start

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  to planet, design it, make it and then create it.

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  And then always, always, always before you feel like you're

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  done, figure out a way to make sure that it

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  is the best possible answer to the question that we've

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  been asked always come up with ways to improve it.

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  So that's your challenge.

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  You're to create a house that can be pre manufacturer

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  collapsed, shipped and reassembled in another part of the world.

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  I love to see what you come up with.

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  I'd love to see the models if you can actually

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  build a model, you know, design it out.

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  I want your brain to start thinking of these solutions

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  that we could come up with.

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  So if you are struggling building a model, do with

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  the drawings come up with the ideas created.

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  Now, if you're super so stoked to do this actually

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  start to build that model out of materials and create

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  a small version of to scale of an actual home

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  that could be collapsed, reassembled, manufactured for people, families living

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  in other parts of the world.

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  And if you want to push your thinking a little

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  bit further, how are you gonna build that house that

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  can withstand some of those natural disasters flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes,

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  those air?

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  Super important.

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  So I love to see what, Ugo, you know, Mr

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  Ewing loves pictures of sense and send pictures and, as

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  always, have some fun