Multi-purpose hall (GDR)
Behold, a true marvel of East German engineering – the portable, foldable ‘space expansion hall.’ (Transportable Raumerweiterungshalle, it just rolls off the tongue!)
This is basically a tiny multi-purpose building. When I say multi-purpose, I mean it. Around 3,000 of these bad boys were produced and they were used for everything. Dining establishments, laundromats, cafes, homes, tourist accomodations, construction worker barracks, shops, you name it.
As the name suggests, these were easily constructable. A group of six people needed approximately six hours to assemble one of these. They were nicknamed accordion because you could literally fold them and then transport them on a trailer. Fully folded, it’s about the size of a caravan.
Nowadays, only a handful still exist. I’ve driven past one of these (a laundromat) bascially all my life, but I only recently found out what the hell these things are actually called.
This mod contains five different variations: the aforementioned laundromat (clothes shop), a cafe, a regular shop, a fully extended house for 10 people and a smaller bungalow version for 5.
