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Some interior decorators did a hit and run on a NYC subway train the other day, setting it up like a decorated room. They said it was because people spend so much time on the subway, they, um, live there. Quite true in NYC, really.
I often think that old subway cars would make great architectural spaces, in the way that people use shipping containers for the same purpose. Many of lettered line cars of the NYC subway are 75' long, probably 10' wide, and 7' high. The height isn't ideal, but rip out some of the interior stuff and you have a stainless steel shell that's damn strong. And it has windows, shipping containers don't.
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csa | 8:36 PM |
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In 1906, a lot of San Francisco streetcars were repurposed as emergency housing after the earthquake. Some actually still survive, embeded in later additions.
Ha ha, the only problem being- how do you get that sucker up the road to your site? Maybe just cut it in half and then reweld on site.
I've always wondered if you could just buy enough land for a siding, put in some rails, and have the car moved on temporary tracks or somesuch to your siding.
The whole thing is totally insane of course because you can just buy a 40-foot mobilehome or trailer and get the same type of space, but WTH.
