Monolithic Cabins-- Transportable

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Multipurposes of Monolithic Cabins

An easily constructed, transportable Monolithic Cabin can be designed and used for many purposes.

• Worker Housing - In literally thousands of locations housing is needed for workers building everything from plants to pipelines, at sites that are far from any accommodations. Monolithic Cabins can provide the housing, and if it's only needed for a few years the cabins can be moved. Onsite construction of worker housing is expensive. In many cases, it's more economical to order completed Monolithic Cabins that can be transported and put to use in a very short time. Their rugged construction is also ideal. Depending on fit-out, the cabins can be used as bunk houses, offices, cook shacks, independent living, etc. The Monolithic Cabins' relatively small need for energy is another plus in remote areas where electricity is furnished by generators.
• Rental Unit - The inside of a Monolithic Cabin is about the size of a large motel room and can include a bathroom with toilet, shower and pocket door; a kitchen with sink, cabinet, hot plate, microwave, refrigerator/freezer; one or two single beds or a fold-out couch and a closet. It's designed primarily for one person, but can accommodate two. That makes it an ideal rental unit.
• Homeless Housing - Monolithic Cabins can be placed on high-dollar land in cities and moved when appropriate alternatives are met. A design variation that is smaller and suitable for a single homeless individual is available. Again, the cabins rugged construction makes them ideal for tough conditions.
• Vacation Dome, Hunting or Fishing Lodge - A Monolithic Cabin can be transported to virtually any location or built in any terrain. "You can easily turn it into your personal, permanent mini-castle that has all the benefits and advantages of a Monolithic Dome," David says. "Once it's completed and on-site, you can attach awnings and create a shaded, outdoor, eating, relaxing area."
• Echo Housing or Granny Flats - The Web defines these as "small, free-standing, removable housing modules placed on the same lot as a single-family dwelling." A Monolithic Cabin certainly fits that category. It can provide cozy, comfortable living quarters that cannot be easily broken into. They're just the place to make granny or grandpa feel welcome, wanted but independent and secure.
• Disaster Shelter - Like a Monolithic Dome, the Monolithic Cabin can provide protection from natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, heavy storms and tornadoes.
• Guest House - Ben Franklin once quipped that guests are like fish; they begin to smell after three days. No such problem with a Monolithic Cabin! Welcome your visitors to their own, private, pleasingly cooled or heated space in a cabin that can include comfortable sleeping and bath accommodations with or without a kitchen.
• Workshop - Furnish it with your workbenches, tool cabinets and equipment. It will furnish you with a workshop that confines the noise and mess but provides you with an easily maintained, secure, pleasant, little dome of your own with power, heat or air and a bathroom.
• Office or Studio - With a Monolithic Cabin, a writer, artist or businessperson can have what novelist Virginia Wolff insisted was a necessity: a room of one's own.
• Play or Game Room - Put in a pool table and/or a ping-pong table and/or a card table and/or an electronic game and you have your very own play area, complete with bathroom, refrigerator and microwave.
• Exercise Room - Get sweaty in your own private Monolithic Cabin where you can also shower and relax.
• Store - A Monolithic Cabin can be placed into a commercially zoned area and designed as a space-efficient, virtually burglar-proof store.

When we started our program of building and renting small domes, we lined up the Monolithic Cabins we had and started building the Io-20s. The Io-20s are wonderful, but we realized we needed a smaller, less expensive unit. We then analyzed our costs. The cost of a Monolithic Cabin is very close to that of each unit in a four-plex. But the occupants of a Monolithic Cabin have a much better feel of privacy. It is their cabin, their sounds, their private little world. And the impact of the neighbors is negligible.

Minimal land usage

Consider land usage. We find that we need two car spaces for each rental unit. We need one for the renter and one for a visitor, second vehicle, boat or trailer. So the parking actually requires more space than the units. If land is expensive, an apartment house is probably a better alternative. We are designing three-floor walk ups, and ten-story elevator apartment houses. There will be a place for these. But for much of the world, the Monolithic Cabin will be the logical choice.

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