Prefab Housing

Eco-friendly Prefabs for Pets: Greenrrroof Animal Homes

Eco-friendly Prefabs for Pets: Greenrrroof Animal Homes

Move over Michelle Kaufman, these new prefabs will leave you and your pet drooling. LA-based Sustainable Pet Design combines green design, healthy living, non-toxic paints and your pet to create this

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Maison EvolutiV by Olgga

PREFAB FRIDAY: Maison EvolutiV by Olgga

This gorgeous wood container prefab from Olgga Architects was turning heads at Salon Europeen du Bois in Grenoble last month. At just 70 square meters (about 753 square feet), this energy efficient abode

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Jenesys Wings Prefab Home

PREFAB FRIDAY: Jenesys Wings Prefab Home

We have been fans of Canadian architect Carsten Jensen since the inception of his British Columbia-based company Jenesys, which specializes in environmentally responsible buildings. We were completely

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PREFAB FRIDAY: PLUS HOUSE in Sweden

PREFAB FRIDAY: PLUS HOUSE in Sweden

Tending away from the industrious (and eponymous) prefabricated square, the Plus House embraces its Nordic roots and rural setting as a thoroughly modern take on the Swedish barn house. The two-story

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Clara Cabin by hiveMODULAR

PREFAB FRIDAY: Clara Cabin by hiveMODULAR

As spring pushes forward and lazy, summer nights begin to envelop us, many people will daydream of the great outdoors and when they will be able to camp in tents and hike again. For those who prefer a

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Custom Wieler Home by Dustin Ehrlich

PREFAB FRIDAY: Custom Wieler Home by Dustin Ehrlich

Architect Dustin Ehrlich has created a custom prefab home near Chapel Hill, NC. Commissioned by his parents and constructed by WIELER, the structure mixes stone, wood, stainless steel and rusted

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Residencia RR Sustainable Style in São Paulo

PREFAB FRIDAY: Residencia RR Sustainable Style in São Paulo

Just off the Brazilian coast in São Paulo, architect Andrade Morettin has created Residencia RR - a stunning summer abode nestled amidst the dense vegetation and semi-tropical, hot, humid climate of

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Rocio Romero LV Prefab Home Opens in Napa, California!

Rocio Romero LV Prefab Home Opens in Napa, California!

Up until fairly recently, Rocio Romero fans could only visit a fully realized public version of her enormously successful LV prefab in Missouri. Then, last month, a privately-owned and newly completed

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PREFAB FRIDAY: ZeroHouse Shows Nothing is Everything

PREFAB FRIDAY: ZeroHouse Shows Nothing is Everything

Ever dreamed of owning a completely self-sufficient home that produces its own energy, water, and is completely customizable? New York architect Scott Specht has the answer to all of our zero-energy

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Daekwon Park’s Superstructure for Sustainable Skyscrapers

Daekwon Park’s Superstructure for Sustainable Skyscrapers

Now in its fourth year running, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition takes future-forward architecture to its breaking point, unveiling a stunning array of new structural concepts by architects, engineers,

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FLATPAK COMES TO LIFE: The Goodwin-Wise Flatpak House

FLATPAK COMES TO LIFE: The Goodwin-Wise Flatpak House

Two years of development have found the world's first production FlatPak house well on track to becoming a real home for the Goodwin-Wise family. Artist and owner Amy Goodwin recently posted a stunning

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New Green Prefab from LivingHomes & KieranTimberlake!

New Green Prefab from LivingHomes & KieranTimberlake!

LivingHome's KT1.1 Expandable Single Family Residence The environmentally conscious, award winning architects KieranTimberlake always manages to amaze us with stunning residential designs that define

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ABŌD: Affordable Prefab for South Africa from BSB Design

ABŌD: Affordable Prefab for South Africa from BSB Design

The Abōd™ is a prototype prefab created by BSB Design for use as affordable housing in South Africa. The simple design uses a strong, natural shape as the core. It’s durable, lightweight and can be

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Top 5 Tiniest Prefab Homes

Top 5 Tiniest Prefab Homes

1. WEEHOUSE At just $125 per square foot, the WeeHouse is a single module that can be plopped on just about any site, including a rooftop. The basic unit is framed with steel and wood, and comes with

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PREFAB FRIDAY: iPAD by Andre Hodgskin

PREFAB FRIDAY: iPAD by Andre Hodgskin

We’ve been waiting and hoping for more from New Zealand architect Andre Hodgskin who first wowed us with BACHKIT™, a gorgeous holiday home of prefab pavilions designed in 2000. Hodgskin’s newest

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PREFAB FRIDAY: The RuralZED Zero Emission Home

PREFAB FRIDAY: The RuralZED Zero Emission Home

The British government recently launched a new super stringent green building rating system called The Code For Sustainable Homes. Code Six is the level that all new residences will be required to

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Agro-Housing for a Sustainable Urban China

Agro-Housing for a Sustainable Urban China

In an era of globalization and significant rural-urban migration, Israel-based Knafo Klimor Architects offer a new ‘urban and social vision that will address problems of chaotic urbanization’. The

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Rocio Romero Prefab Home Tour Kicks Off Tomorrow in NY!

Rocio Romero Prefab Home Tour Kicks Off Tomorrow in NY!

Rocio Romero is one of our favorite prefab designers mastering the art of fusing modernist design with affordability. Her LV series articulates her commitment to minimalism with clean, comfortable lines

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PREFAB FRIDAY: The Magic Box gets creative with prefab

PREFAB FRIDAY: The Magic Box gets creative with prefab

A new prefab from Jun Ueno brings a fun, modern aesthetic to accessory spaces for garden, courtyard or rooftop. The Magic Box is an extension room that can be used as an office, studio or serve any

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PREFAB FRIDAY: The Rapson Greenbelt

PREFAB FRIDAY: The Rapson Greenbelt

Modernist architect Ralph Rapson has managed this to reinterpret a 60-year old design with the green panache of a 21st century prefab. The Rapson Greenbelt, an articulate series of prefab dwellings, is

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Brio54

PREFAB FRIDAY: Brio54

As soon as we saw them, we instantly fell in love with Brio54’s new set of prefab residential prototypes. A young, design-driven development firm, Brio54’s mission is to provide sustainable,

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja

PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja

We've featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK's container home kit, student housing , and even an entire container city in London. One thing's

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PREFAB FRIDAY: A ‘House Boat’ for the Arctic

PREFAB FRIDAY: A ‘House Boat’ for the Arctic

Winter shelter in the Arctic can take form in an upside down hunting boat – a traditional Inuit practice. Covey Island Boatworks, award winning builders of hand-crafted yachts, power and sailboats, has

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland

PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland

We’re quite taken by Strohhaus in Eschenz, Switzerland. Designed by Zurich-based architect Felix Jerusalem, this home masterfully combines prefab with sustainable materials, primarily prefabricated

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Logical Homes at CES

PREFAB FRIDAY: Logical Homes at CES

The giant CES tradeshow is primarily about gadgets - as one would expect - but we made a surprising architectural discovery at this years CES which impressed us with its creativity (and its creative

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PREFAB FRIDAY: ‘Watershed’ Sustainable Writer’s Retreat

PREFAB FRIDAY: ‘Watershed’ Sustainable Writer’s Retreat

It's easy to see how inspiration takes hold in ‘Watershed’ - a 100 square foot writer’s retreat in Oregon that is as sustainable as it is engaging. Commissioned by a well-known nature writer and

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Single Hauz Elevated Domain

PREFAB FRIDAY: Single Hauz Elevated Domain

Living lightly takes on new meaning with the Single Hauz from Poland-based front architects. Inspired by billboards, intended for single lifestyles and propped on a central pole, this prefab looks to the

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PREFAB FRIDAY: ‘Option’ Modular House by WeberHaus

PREFAB FRIDAY: ‘Option’ Modular House by WeberHaus

German prefab firm WeberHaus and architect Peter C. Jakob of Bauart have made a stylish case for sustainable living with the modular concept ‘Option House'. Driven by a modern aesthetic and

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Gingerbread Lotus House!

PREFAB FRIDAY: Gingerbread Lotus House!

The only thing better than beautifully designed green prefab is edible green prefab! One of our favorite green architects Michelle Kauffman, in honor of the holiday season, has designed a yummy version of

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PREFAB FRIDAY: Solar Green Homes Delivered by Truck!

PREFAB FRIDAY: Solar Green Homes Delivered by Truck!

The benefits of green homes are catching on! Entire apartment communities are getting solar-powered, and now PowerHouse Enterprises is making solar power more accessible with green prefab homes delivered

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