The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered
prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy
As one last collaboration, Ray and Charles Eames tackle
prefab housing in LA, with colorful grids after Piet Mondrian.
Blu ® Homes builds award - winning, architecturally designed
prefab houses in a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Vallejo, California using a proprietary steel framing and building technology that results in economical, low - maintenance houses that are strong, beautiful, and finished on - site.
Not exact matches
They're installed on two model roofs sitting
in the office's back parking lot, like parts of a
prefab house waiting for pickup.
people
in the U.S. live
in mobile home that cost $ 5 grands a pop, erect stunning
prefab house with barely a quarter of the cost should you hire a local general contractor to do so.
«
In the Forest» at the Graham Foundation Coinciding with the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, David Hartt's multifaceted installation explores the connection between ideology, architecture, and the environment by revisiting Moshe Sadie's unfinished 1968 Habitat Puerto Rico project: a
prefab concrete structure that was intended to provide some 800 low - cost
housing units for the city.
As
in other parts of the city, the latest version of white brick apartment blocks come
in red or yellow brick with vaguely SoHo Revivalist fenestration; they spring up
in Chelsea's plentiful parking lots so quickly you might think they are being laid
in like
prefab houses.
One of the big complaints about modern
prefab is its inability to deliver at the cost that everyone expects (like matching production
housing or less) and the problem of acquiring land, which is expensive, particularly
in areas around cities like San
From the cutest shed, to the best design tumblr, single family
house,
prefab, and more, the results are
in for our 2012 Best of Green Awards
in Design.
So if you can't get to New York for Home Delivery before it closes on the 20th, you can see A Clean Break from the 17th to the 30th
in Philadelphia.:: A Clean Break More on the
Prefabs in TreeHugger: The Wee
House Sustain MiniHome: Sustainable
Prefab Now.
More by A Site - Specific Experiment: Rammed Earth +
Prefab = Quick and Cheap DIY
House Green Container
Housing Demo
in Thailand Neat Little Shipping Container
Prefab Built
in Bangkok
I have built
prefabs where the
house started construction
in the factory on the same day as the foundations were poured, and the
house was set two weeks later.
The same week that Alice Rawsthorn was writing about A
Prefab House That Dazzles Still, the Pacific Palisades home of Charles and Ray Eames, I was in Paris, visiting another dazzling steel and glass house, the M
House That Dazzles Still, the Pacific Palisades home of Charles and Ray Eames, I was
in Paris, visiting another dazzling steel and glass
house, the M
house, the Maison
In the last housing recession just about every prefab company in the States and Canada went bankrupt because of this, and it is likely to happen agai
In the last
housing recession just about every
prefab company
in the States and Canada went bankrupt because of this, and it is likely to happen agai
in the States and Canada went bankrupt because of this, and it is likely to happen again.
More at Jetson Green, Casa100K and Mario Cucinella More on the American 100K
house in TreeHugger: Quote of the Day: Building Green Houses is Like «Polishing a Turd» Another Opinion:
Prefab is Not the Answer to Affordable, Modern and Green Homes At A Clean Break: Interface Studio Architects
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.
Japanese design brand Muji has revealed the prototype for its latest
prefab house, which it will test by having a competition winner move
in rent - free for two years (+ movie).
eFAB
House — Assembles Like IKEA Furniture A 130 square feet
prefab home
in Machipongo, Virginia.
This innovative
prefab passive
house building
in South Surrey, British Columbia, was completed
in 2013.
TreeHugger on Insulation TreeHugger Picks: Green Insulation TreeHugger on Greg La Vardera Click Your Way to Greg Lavardera's Modern Stock Plans: 6040
House by LaMiDesign: TreeHugger How They Build
in Sweden: Panellized
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Prefab Bloggers: TreeHugger on DeMaria Designs Logical Homes at CES
Nineteen eco-friendly
prefab houses are currently competing on the National Mall
in the 2011 Solar Decathlon, and Maryland's WaterShed
house has led the pack through the first week, as judges awarded points
in a variety of categories.
More from the New York Times and the Live the Box Competition More Shipping Container
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Park Model
Prefabs Go Modern Thoughts on Clayton's i -
house Cabin Fever: Eight
Prefabs in ReadyMade
Earlier this year, students from China's Tongji University created an interesting prototype for a
prefab house that combines both passive and active energy strategies for the European Solar Decathalon, held
in Madrid, Spain.
The Micro Compact
house was the only pre-existing
prefab to be included
in the show, with its first American viewing.
We have previously mentioned the exhibition of modern
prefab, A Clean Break opening
in Philadelphia on October 16;
in addition to the WeeHouse and MiniHome, there is also an exhibition, including work by Interface Studio Architects, who designed the 100K
House, which is most definitely not a
prefab in the traditional sense.
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.
Photos of the
prefab houses are gorgeous, to be sure, but they are shot so you'll notice the
house's integration with nature - and forget perhaps the fact that
in these particular homes you'd be car dependent for every other thing you do besides sit at home.
Or as the
prefab salesmen say: «you wouldn't build your car
in the driveway, so why would you build your
house in a field?»
That's one of the benefits of
prefab; building a
house in a factory can give you better quality control.
To recap, the Lindell family have moved into a solar powered
prefab house, designed by one of Sweden's top architects Gert Wingårdh,
in order to radically reduce their annual carbon footprint to one tonne per person.
Although Kristin may have written about the first 100 % solar - powered affordable
housing project
in San Diego, and there was some debate whether these
prefab solar homes
in Chicago were fairly priced,
in general the terms «solar» and «affordable» don't (yet) sit well together
in the public imagination.
The best analogy to
prefab houses is the Mini Cooper — mass produced but with enough options to let the owners feel they have a custom automobile...» Michael Pyatok, FAIA Pyatok Architects Berkeley, Calif.»... As long as
housing is treated as a commodity
in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perception.
The tiny
house movement
in America, the shed movement
in the UK, small
prefab were popular throughout the last decade, but the economic meltdown finally tipped the scales toward smaller, easier to manage and heat living spaces.
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:
Conhouse via Mocoloco Shipping Container
Housing in TreeHugger Home Delivery: Modern
Prefab Lives Fast, Dies Young, Leaves Good Looking Corpse Crate Expectations: 12 Shipping Container
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TreeHugger on Jennifer Siegel Swellhouse by Jennifer Siegel Built
in Venice takehome: affordable modernist
prefab Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Portable Architecture TreeHugger on Barton Myers Barton Myers» Steel
House
The one shown here is a
prefab dollhouse by four architects interested
in affordable urban
housing.
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
More on Shipping Container Architecture Crate Expectations: 12 Shipping Container
Housing Ideas Shipping Container
Prefab Fun with Finns: Shipping Containers Full of Playful Finnish Design (video) Freitag Recycled Shipping Container Store
in Zurich CircuitBox: Transformer Furniture
in a Shipping Container
In the
housing industry, the phrase «
prefab» often conjures up the image of a generic - looking, nondescript
house or a mobile home.
In the United States,
prefab housing has been around for more than a century.
While 3 - D printing
in the homebuilding industry has largely created
prefab houses whose components are created at a factory and then assembled on location, a new technique is letting one company print the
house in its entirety onsite.
Known for faster build times,
prefab housing is making more
in the building and real estate industry to take notice too.
They're eyeing
prefab housing as the answer to adding more inventories of
housing in markets that desperately need them.
ca. 1900 -
Prefab houses become popular
in the United States after Sears, Roebuck begins featuring them
in mail - order catalogs.