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Canühome Unveiled at Green Living Show

April 26, 2008 on 6:44 am | After World War II, Edward Larabee Barnes, Henry Dreyfuss and Bucky Fuller all tried to use aircraft technology and ideas to build housing but it never took off, so to speak. Perhaps their mistake was modelling it after the wrong planes, going with metal, instead of looking at the Mosquito and building it out of plywood. I am not certain if that is where the inspiration for the canühome came from, but the designers have used the latest CNC technology and a lot of other ideas that make it one of the more interesting test beds we have seen. It is almost entirely built out of laminated plywood, bolted together in a couple of days as a demonstration project by CMHC (Canada Mort...