Word: modularized
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...Director and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Andrew W. Murray said the money will help fund the study of “modular design” in various lifeforms...
...required that a two-dimensional surface be modulated to create the illusion of three dimensions. Among the solutions were toothpicks glued to pieces of paper, nails pounded into wooden bases at different heights, and holes punctured in tin. Another series of forms shown evolved from the problem of joining modular units together into a larger structure...
...required that a two-dimensional surface be modulated to create the illusion of three dimensions. Among the solutions were toothpicks glued to pieces of paper, nails pounded into wooden bases at different heights, and holes punctured in tin. Another series of forms shown evolved from the problem of joining modular units together into a larger structure...
...little primer on prefab might be useful. At one end of the housing spectrum is conventional "stick built" construction. At the other is the mobile home assembled entirely in a factory and then delivered in one piece to your plot. In between is the world of prefab and modular housing. Whole segments of a house--picture entire rooms or halves of them--are produced in the factory. Kitchen cabinets, toilets, electric wiring, even doorknobs are all put in place before the modules are shipped out on flatbed trucks to the building site, where they are hoisted by cranes onto...
...clean but also allowed you to attach paintings to your walls with magnets. The Jetsons would have loved it. All the same, by the 1950s prefab was in decline. Mobile homes had emerged as the more popular low-cost alternative to stick-built housing. There are still dozens of modular-housing manufacturers in the U.S., but last year they produced just 36,000 of the more than 1.8 million new housing starts nationwide...