Taiwan would be an ideal place to get into ‘prefab’ living. We can see there’s a trend of upgrading container type houses here already. There’s also lots of fancy looking restaurants that are simply tie pi wu at heart (I’m not a massive fan of tie pi wu unless that have insulation obviously). Does anybody you know live in one of these things?
I think they are a great option, instead of pouring tonnes of concrete for foundations and roofs and spending an average of 5-10 million NTD just to build a house why not get one of these, what 300,000 to 1 million NTD? That’s what people spend here just to do up their concrete shell apartments in the crowded dirty cities. When you get bored, hire a truck and tow it somewhere else or disassemble and reassemble elsewhere. Low impact, low cost, flexible.
Stick up any pics of these types of houses in Taiwan if you come across them. The below just shows HOW MUCH design can effect your experience of something.
Look really nice. Well, I can imagine one of them sliding into the river here in Taiwan, but, they look nice. And I’m afraid that I can’t aford anything else
They are quake proof, but as I mentioned in another thread … I would go for a reefer, it’s insulated, outside aluminium, inside stainless and it has a cooling unit attached that runs on diesel and electricity. The diesel unit is probably a power generator providing electric power to the refrigeration unit.
But you could mix both types … and go for a high cube, they are higher, like 270 cm.
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You could rig up some solar panels and batteries to go eco and off grid but as we know in Taiwan you are never far from an electricity supply. I’d be very happy to live in one of these things the wife isn’t so impressed she thinks it wouldn’t be too secure.
It’s the safest place you can be during an earthquake … and there are some nice constructions out there, no less than traditional construction/architecture.
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Did you look at the pics? They are also better living conditions than being stuck in a concrete box on the 17th floor.
But yeah I know my wife wouldn’t handle it well on her own, so would have to be a weekend house first.
I envisage a semi permanent housing arrangement that is better than your standard tie Pi wu here.
As for designated spaces you could just whack it on some farmland but near an electricity and telephone and water supply, it could go in behind an existing building if necessary and share some connections.
I’ve seen some RVs here which are great for traveling but too small for living in as a family.
Look at the HORRIBLE housing all over Taiwan, so easy to do so much better.
In the ol country there is a lot of this prefab in place, and we are also a heavy seismic area. No biggie, safe on all accounts. Assembly can be done by trained handymen or volunteers from Habitat who have never lifted a hammer.
Well, since they are not tall at all, quakes do not worry me… as much as land and mudslides… that house you see in front of the river… I would not do that in Taiwan
Well, since they are not tall at all, quakes do not worry me… as much as land and mudslides… that house you see in front of the river… I would not do that in Taiwan [/quote]
I am sorry to inform you that you do not need to be that close to a river to be affected by landslides/floods. You were not here for Nari! But yeah, too close to the river is asking for it… yet that is not the point. You can put this kind of housing anywhere you want.
This is more your standard container house as found in Taiwan (but as I said there are much fancier versions now including multi-storey versions I’ve seen). I’m not a massive fan of container houses because I think their dimensions are a bit constrained (too narrow) but if you link them together it might work better.
When I moved here I was thinking of getting such a design house. Not too difficult to find producers in the USA and in Japan. Can be made earthquake and typhoon proof.
But all that is not the issue I guess. The main problem in Taiwan would be to buy or lease the land to put it on. How come nobody mentioned this? Do you know some tricks and/or a hidden gold mine?
getting land is not that expensive-this is a large amount of land, a farm, if you look more you can find even better deals sale.591.com.tw/sale-detail-1232878.html
So…well, I already knew that these houses are movable (even though may be not all of them are so), but… again, who assambles them? and… do the terrain need some previous work in order to get it plane? and… how about electricity and water? and the human dump? do the garbage truck pick up feces and so?
In theory they could be cheaper than living in an apartment, you’d need to get a deal on land and the connections, the easiest would be to split into somebody’s existing connections.
As for the human sewage, I’m not sure how advanced they are in that department in Taiwan in the countryside. There you go asking pesky questions .
There’s a guy who has moved in beside the in-laws in Miaoli advertising these things (higher spec pre-fab), I’ll go and have a mosey around next time I’m down there. There’s another guy selling log huts as well.
You actually see a lot of containers dotted around on farmland but they are actually just for the purpose of establishing a ‘barn’ or ‘tool shed’ (needs one or two years) which later then becomes a multi-storey villa with a hong-bao thrown in…such is the planning law in Taiwan.
A prefab house would theoretically have a lot less impact on the environment.
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