Buildings Inspired by Quonset Huts

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 Time: 5:36 PM
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The modern day steel building is patterned after the World War II Quonset huts. Quonset huts were used to house soldiers in the field during the war. Quonset huts were easy to put up and take down. The basic design of the Quonset hut quickly became popular with civilians. The basic building design of the Quonset hut is used today for many purposes. Quonset huts have an arch design where the curved walls meet the floor. The original design of the Quonset hut made it impossible to put furniture or machinery against the walls of the building. To solve this problem, the walls were altered to have a 90 degree angle.
Steel buildings today are a take off on the military Quonset hut. In fact, many current portable steel buildings got their design from the Quonset hut. The modern day Quonset hut can be put together in no time.Quonset hut style airline hangers, made out of steel, were used after World War II. Thousands of the Quonset huts began to be made. The huts were easily put together by hand tools. The military still uses the Quonset hut style steel buildings. These Quonset hut buildings can be used for storage as well as for office buildings. There really is no end to the different ways the Quonset huts can be used.
The durability of the Quonset hut can not be beat, even though its looks are not very attractive. In the civilian world they are used for storage and office space also. Farmers in the United States even use Quonset huts on their farms to store farm equipment and other things. If you have room on your property, you can use small Quonset huts to keep vehicles and motorcycles in too. The Quonset hut is so popular, that there are even portable plastic style ones available now too. Quonset huts are used for green houses, canopies for recreations vehicles, boat shelters, animal shelters, the list goes on and on. Quonset hut canopies are now used for boat shelter, animal shelters, green houses, etc. Metal frames and a plastic cover are used to make popular Quonset style green houses today. The shape and size on the Quonset green house, makes them really easy to heat. New style Quonset hut buildings are worth looking into.

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