Sentences with phrase «prefabricated housing»

BERGDOLL: I wanted to do an exhibit about how architectural design is changing radically with computer - aided manufacturing, and I thought the most interesting exploration of this topic was in the theme of prefabricated housing.

«They're really fascinating,» says Tom Fetters, author of Lustron: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment (McFarland & Co., 2001), who first got hooked on the houses when he helped his daughter make a scale model of a Lustron with a removable roof for a high school history project in 1986.

The House of Your Dreams, Delivered Fresh from the Factory By Sherry Koones $ 30 The Taunton Press Here's a coffee - table book that shows how factory - built homes have come a long way from the old mobile trailer parks that many people still envision when they hear about prefabricated housing.

When Le Corbusier first talked about prefabricated housing and the industries involved, sustainability and energy production and such things were not part of the discourse.

Entitled Blokoshka, it's a playful exploration of the prefabricated housing that sprung up quickly and affordably following World War II when governments were in desperate need of providing suitable homes for their populations.

Realism often caters a public's worst desires, and prefabricated can have disturbing meanings when it comes to art — or prefabricated housing.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out for Antarctica with 125 men, three tanks, two planes, a snowmobile and some prefabricated houses.

To prove it, West Coast Green, an exposition in San Francisco dedicated to environmentally friendly construction, debuted the first ever fully manufactured version of architect Michelle Kaufmann's mkLotus prefabricated house.

Quality prefab homes, prefabricated houses and home additions, panelized hurricane homes, custom designed using a post & beam home building system.

The one - and two - bedroom houses are lovely prefabricated houses with bedrooms containing either double or single beds and air - conditioning, and clean linen is also supplied.The four air - conditioned Economy House Rooms are located within a wooden house and contain either double or twin single beds and en - suite bathrooms.

The paintings are enlarged facsimiles of paint chips for colors for domestic exteriors and interiors in «Exterior and Interior Color Beauty», a booklet produced in about 1935 by General Houses, Inc., a manufacturer of prefabricated houses founded by the artist's father, Howard T. Fisher.

He and Merlin James can paint an undistinguished, prefabricated house and make it feel like the calm eye of a horrific storm.

«Up to now, the furthest they've managed to get is the prefabricated house and they're not the same as the mass - produced house.

Leading international sustainable technology manufacturer Viessmann has collaborated with high end prefabricated house manufacturer Huf Haus, to equip a UK residential property with first - of - its - kind technology.

From The New York Times on Jan. 7, 1968: «In the year 2000, we'll live in prefabricated houses light enough for two men to assemble....

Not exact matches

Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent of the designs presented for the Case Study House Program, which was held to demonstrate how technology developed during World War II could be applied to housing construction once the troops returned, the New York Times reported.

Less than a year later, New York City called for the delivery of 2,000 Quonset huts — prefabricated frame structures that were used in the war — to a 75 - acre site in Canarsie to house veterans.

Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent of the designs presented for the Case Study House Program,

«Edison's «Single - Pour System»: Inventing Seamless Architecture» illustrated how Thomas Edison invented and patented in 1917 an innovative construction system to mass produce prefabricated and seamless concrete houses.

«The palindrome regions of the Y are almost like a house that is being rebuilt,» says Page — one in which similar, prefabricated units are being added on in different ways in the genomes of the two species.

We do not consider other factory - built housing (not built on a permanent chassis), such as modular, prefabricated, panelized, or sectional housing, to be manufactured housing.

They sell prefabricated dogs houses that are really good quality.

Where design and photography promised to debunk the originality of the avant - garde, a building almost insists on its original presence — even in something as faceless as prefabricated homes or a housing project.

In a departure from earlier iterations of the work, which have involved one or several rooms, the present installation is built like a typical, prefabricated American suburban house.

With its ten huge complexes of prefabricated slab - construction housing, Hoyerswerda was once a showcase socialist metropolis for the GDR; today it is Germany's fastest - shrinking city.

House Version is made of prefabricated stainless steel tubes of varying length, the domed ends of which interconnect to form molecule - like clusters at the vertices.

The Minim Home (a 210 sqft tiny home on wheels), a prefabricated studio shed, and a tiny house that is currently under construction by DC high school students.

The Dome House is simple, since it is a prefabricated building with a small number of parts.

However, this Amazon tiny house option avoids most of that work by being a prefabricated option that ships fully - finished, and although it still requires either concrete footers or a slab to sit on, it's ready for the sewer, water, and electricity connections («plug and play») once that's complete.

The weeHouse is Alchemy Architects» prefabricated modular house.

Numerous case studies will be presented to demonstrate how innovative building enclosures have been integrated into various projects ranging from mid-rise wood frame buildings and prefabricated Passive House buildings, to towering wood, concrete and steel structures.

Post war reconstruction was limited by the shortage of experienced bricklayers and the slow nature of traditional building techniques, resulting in a shift towards modular prefabricated systems which became synonymous with social high rise housing in London and its new towns.

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This week's roundup in our series on residential architecture from different US states brings us to Arkansas, home to a prefabricated cantilevered dwelling designed by students and a pool house with an overhanging sleeping loft (+ slideshow).

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Also bear in mind that the majority of the wood - framed, high - performance (green based on actual performance metrics as opposed to a checklist) buildings certified as passive house (more than 30,000 buildings in total) were prefabricated.

I developed my own version of this a few years ago and have prefabricated two houses with great success.

Minnesota has written a tiny house code fact sheet: SUMMARY If the tiny house does not: • have a chassis and axles, or • have a HUD manufactured home label, or • have a RVIA park model label, then • it is either a prefabricated or industrialized modular building subject -LSB-...]

Not including the three - car garage, the three - bedroom, 2.5 bathroom prefabricated modular house provides its residents with 2273 square feet of living space.

Sohm Holzbautechnik, the general contractor that prefabricated the Austria House, not only met the standard, but did so by layering wood in ways that few British Columbians have imagined.

The speed argument is erroneous too: many timber frame companies, for example, are able to prefabricate passive house systems in a factory and put them up on site quickly, with less exposure of the building structure to the wind and rain.

One of the approaches to rebuilding in a hurry was to use prefabricated technology, converting wartime production facilities to housing.

What if, instead of building new houses on virgin ground, we added prefabricated units on top of existing homes?

Architect Stéphane Malka has proposed a way of building new housing; he proposes a prefabricated system, «3box», where units are added to the rooftops of existing buildings.

The house makes use of prefabricated, commercially available steel which makes it both low in cost and extremely modular.

To be clear, this is for tiny houses built to residential standards intended for permanent residence status with an official certificate of occupancy (CO) for both «prefabricated and site built» tiny homes.

These prefabricated homes were deemed to be three times stronger than a conventional, wood frame house.

Lustrons, prefabricated ranch - style houses made entirely of steel, are collectibles not unlike old record players or vintage automobiles.

It's time to dismiss stereotypes about prefabricated single - family housing and take a look at the latest generation of prefabs, which are strikingly contemporary and even glamorous.

One in six Japanese houses is prefabricated by six companies, including Toyota Home.