What is the history of the Quonset huts?
In 1941, the United States Navy built an all-purpose, lightweight building that could be shipped anywhere in the world and assembled quickly and easily to support the troops in WWII. The Quonset design was modeled closely on the World War I Nissen Hut engineered by the British. The Navy found that they were able to maximize the flexible interior space of these structures since the building was an open clear-span design. In addition, they discovered that the rounded shape of the corrugated arch is one of the strongest structures in architecture which provided the shelter they needed during the war.
