Comments on: mobile_SUBURBIA: Floating, Mobile Suburbs http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/09/mobile_suburbia/ A Suburban Design Competition Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:02:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wayne Scott http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/09/mobile_suburbia/#comment-376 Wayne Scott Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:11:46 +0000 http://www.re-burbia.com/?p=842#comment-376 The cost of simply moving a home is prohibitive. Impossible if it is bolted to a non structural slab. Even then it will crack from the weight of the foundations. Every window and door will shift. Homes are not built to be moved. Unfortunately the required size of the helium balloon would dwarf the size of the suburb, obscuring the sunlight. Now that no one can drive a car over the edge, what is the point of a typical tract house and garage? It may as well be a unified construction without the weight of trees and dirt. Can we assume this was intended to be a geostationary space station, tied to the ground with a space elevator? I would rather be in an enclosed bubble, than exposed to the cold thin air at high altitude. The cost of simply moving a home is prohibitive. Impossible if it is bolted to a non structural slab. Even then it will crack from the weight of the foundations. Every window and door will shift. Homes are not built to be moved.

Unfortunately the required size of the helium balloon would dwarf the size of the suburb, obscuring the sunlight. Now that no one can drive a car over the edge, what is the point of a typical tract house and garage? It may as well be a unified construction without the weight of trees and dirt.

Can we assume this was intended to be a geostationary space station, tied to the ground with a space elevator? I would rather be in an enclosed bubble, than exposed to the cold thin air at high altitude.

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