Not all Prefab is Bad

Anytime Prefabricated houses get mentioned there is an awkward silence generally followed by people (marcello) freaking out and screaming inaudibly with only words like McMansions and commuter communities making out of the haze. There are however stuations where prefab works:

Why would a hermit crab need a plastic house? Like it’s distant human relative, the American hermit crab population is currently facing a massive housing shortage. There are simply not enough shells left on beaches anymore for hermit crabs to inhabit. Biologists routinely find crabs attempting to shelter themselves in glass jars, plastic containers and whatever other ill-fitting forms of refuse they can find. Scientists suspect that this sad situation might be due to pollution or over-collecting of seashells by humans. In order to try to remedy this environmental problem, (and perhaps draw social and cultural analogies?) conceptual artist come bio-engineer Elizabeth Demaray has decided to give the little guys a “hand-up” by mass-producing tiny plastic houses for them.

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Who would have thought?

-Chris