Capsule design in general was a popular idea, but swapping isn't feasible compared to moving. You would still want to remove most items from a capsule when being lifted by crane.
The one place you do see capsule architecture is cruise ships. The rooms are built elsewhere and then slotted into the ship en masse. But in this case, ships are moved to a shipyard to be serviced. In the tower model, the maintenance machines have to come to the tower, which is much harder to make economically viable for single replacements.
> swapping isn't feasible compared to moving. You would still want to remove most items from a capsule when being lifted by crane.
Eh. If it had caught up it’s pretty reasonable that capsule design would have supported such a use case, by adding features to securely stow items as on ships or planes e.g. latches, strap hooks, etc…
The one place you do see capsule architecture is cruise ships. The rooms are built elsewhere and then slotted into the ship en masse. But in this case, ships are moved to a shipyard to be serviced. In the tower model, the maintenance machines have to come to the tower, which is much harder to make economically viable for single replacements.