Prefab - a brick, really?

Prefab - a brick, really?

Why am I doing it to myself?

While doing research on the history of prefabrication, I've found a very interesting fact. A brick is a prefabricate. Lol.
It's hard to find the definition of prefabricate. Most of the sources claim that prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure off-site (in a factory or other manufacturing site), and a prefabricate is a complete assembly or sub-assembly that can be transported to the construction site.
So basically yes, a brick is the first prefabricate. It was prepared off-site and transported to the construction site. So in its times, it was a big thing.

The concept of concrete prefabrication is dated to around 1905, when in Liverpool the city engineer Alexander Brodie built his first experimental houses in Eldon Street.

Eldon Street Dwelling by J. A. Brodi, Liverpool, c. 1905.

Assemby of Grosovenor Atterbry's concrete panel system, below completed suburban house, Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York.

Patent drawing of T. Edison's Single Pour Concrete System.

Sears Modern Homes, in 1918 catalog indentified as a street view of the houses in "Schopper, Illinois.", which in fact was a view from Wood River.

Levittown, Long Island, USA c. 1950.

"Jamnik" (Dachshund) under construction, Warsaw, photo by Lubomir Winnik, 1973.

The life went on and on, First World War passed, Second World War passed, everything got messed up and destroyed and such.

The interesting thing is - when you destroy someones house, they don't quite have where to live. So a good idea would be to rebuild what was destroyed right? Well maybe. But families cant wait 2-4 years waiting for a new home, it had to be fast.

So, boom. Prefab. With this technology it was possible to build 5-storey building in 4 months. Sick.

There is a lot more to the history of prefab, but I have to keep writing about it in my actual thesis, not here.

K BYE