Captain Obvious
07-09-2015, 08:42 AM
Makes sense that a location which was once an opportunity for people to support a decent lifestyle and afford reasonable living accommodations is now a project where people are living in empty refrigerator boxes.
Be at ease though, I'm sure the ultra wealthy in Poland are doing better than they ever did.
http://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/abandoned-shipyard-revived-tiny-houses-tracks.html
Back in 1980, the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland was famous worldwide as the site of the first organized resistance against Communism in eastern Europe. Now it's down from over 20,000 workers to about a tenth that number and there are a lot of empty buildings and abandoned rail lines. Dezeen (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/08/tomasz-zablotny-pawel-maszota-expanding-micro-mobile-homes-railway-tracks-shipyard-gdansk/) shows the work of Polish architecture students Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota, who have designed a community of tiny homes that move on those rails.
They are very clever little boxes that telescope out to be larger but still little boxes. The students at the Gdańsk University of Technology tell Dezeen: (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/08/tomasz-zablotny-pawel-maszota-expanding-micro-mobile-homes-railway-tracks-shipyard-gdansk/)
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/smalltracks.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/tzpm-jednostka-minimum-05.jpg.650x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/tzpm-jednostka-minimum-09.jpg.650x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg
Be at ease though, I'm sure the ultra wealthy in Poland are doing better than they ever did.
http://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/abandoned-shipyard-revived-tiny-houses-tracks.html
Back in 1980, the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland was famous worldwide as the site of the first organized resistance against Communism in eastern Europe. Now it's down from over 20,000 workers to about a tenth that number and there are a lot of empty buildings and abandoned rail lines. Dezeen (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/08/tomasz-zablotny-pawel-maszota-expanding-micro-mobile-homes-railway-tracks-shipyard-gdansk/) shows the work of Polish architecture students Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota, who have designed a community of tiny homes that move on those rails.
They are very clever little boxes that telescope out to be larger but still little boxes. The students at the Gdańsk University of Technology tell Dezeen: (http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/08/tomasz-zablotny-pawel-maszota-expanding-micro-mobile-homes-railway-tracks-shipyard-gdansk/)
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/smalltracks.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/tzpm-jednostka-minimum-05.jpg.650x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/tzpm-jednostka-minimum-09.jpg.650x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg