The photo above is from Adam Cohen's company, BuildSmart, which
makes prefab housing Lego style.
Not exact matches
The firm was set - up to develop an innovative, potentially revolutionary design, which would
make a carbon - neutral, eco-friendly,
prefab house available to the mass market.
Built with eco-materials and
made for solar, wind, or geothermal power, the «glide» in the
prefab house's name refers to both the wall of sliding glass on one side of the building and the bank of storage opposite.
The grand dream of those promoting green modern
prefab is that it will do for
housing what IKEA did for furniture:
make good modern design popular, affordable and available to everyone.
In the regular
prefab biz, designers do everything they can to
make the
house look conventional, often at the cost of efficiency and cost - effectiveness.
After seeing a post on Inhabitat titled Compact
Prefab House is
Made from a Single Shipping Container in Milan, Architect and writer Lance Hosey tweets:
One of the reasons I am so fond of
prefab is that it it
makes houses more like industrial design, where you refine and test your product before you foist it on the public.
More on their blog at:: Layer by Layer Digital Houses in TreeHugger Five Modern
Prefabs Coming to the MOMA 1:1
Making the Digital
House
The Homestead
House is an off - grid
prefab concept
made from recycled steel by designer Michael Jantzen.
Whether it's a traditional
prefab or a modernist example of factory -
made housing, there are a number of ways
prefab can be done.
Likewise, if a home owner wants to add a guest
house, a painting studio, or another room, a
prefab addition could
make perfect sense.
Prefab still
makes up a relatively small supply of
housing.
Known for faster build times,
prefab housing is
making more in the building and real estate industry to take notice too.