Not all prefab is created equal. Some, like Rocio Romero’s LV Home, are made for middle-income, modernist loving homebuyers. Others, like Ray Kappe’s Living Home, are a super high-end version

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What the Lazy-Susan has done for efficient dining, the Hanse Rotor House has done for compact living. This spatially smart dwelling is made up of a large open living room surrounding a central core

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Rocio Romero is perhaps best known for her LV Home, but her Fish Camp house has been our pet favorite since we first saw it. She talked about Fish Camp at Dwell on Design last month, and in this

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Michelle Kaufmann’s prefab home designs have become a perpetual favorite at Inhabitat. Her latest, the mkSolaire, is no exception. Depending on where you live, there are a variety of alternatives

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Since prefab is often implicitly about mobility, spatial efficiency and design innovation, Prefab Friday seemed an apt day to feature the Quickup Camper. The lightweight, carbonfiber and foam shell pops

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Geometry is the name of the game with 3xn‘s KipUp House, for M2. The Danish design makes use of angular windows and steeply sloped rooflines, allowing daylight to pour in and reach most every inch

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We have covered the Sustain MiniHOME on Inhabitat before – but this is the first time we’ve gotten a real photographic look at the gorgeous eco-friendly prefab. We go on and on about how sick

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One of the most beautiful, flexible, and complex prefab systems we’ve covered in the last year is the Ray Kappe designed Living Home. For better and worse, it was covered this week in the LA Times

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Glass house meets prefab sophistication in this upscale version of the modern shed by Tsubomi. The creators of Tsubomi have dubbed their structure the “aluminum space packaging system,” which

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The Global Village Shelter – $550, the Lexus in the background – $50,000. While Jill was researching and writing up the Global Village Shelters back home in NY, unbeknownst to her, I was in

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We know you like Prefab Fridays, but many of you have been writing in recently to complain about the high costs of many of the prefabs we’ve featured lately. The burgeoning crop of chic modernist

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If you were to look up “mad genius” in the dictionary, you might find a picture of Adam Kalkin. One glance through his vast portfolio and it’s clear that this is not the work of an

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Toyota’s inching its tentacles into just about every facet of future-forward living. The Prius, of course, has become a household term synonymous with hybrid transportation; then there was the

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Prefab Friday has been a great way to build up the Inhabitat prefab archive, giving us a weekly reason to look for new developments in the industry, or add in old favorites. The weeHouse from Alchemy

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Say the word “cabana” and most people immediately conjure ideas of banana daiquiris, palm trees and flower print shirts. However, take one look at The Modern Cabana and a totally different

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For over 10 years, Studio 804 at the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Urban Design has been churning out real projects through their design-build program. Many of these projects endevored

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We are really excited about the potential of Zenkaya, a great new prefab out of South Africa that has been making the rounds lately. Based on the idea of providing “a headache free process with

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Readers, we’d like to introduce you to BOB. BOB is a mobile home unlike any other – a dwelling that is bound to be spectacular, because Andrew Maynard is the creator and designer (and you know

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The more important it becomes to incorporate environmental sustainability into building design, the more we see architecture sharing a seat with the natural sciences. Monitoring weather patterns, UV

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Although it’s not your typical prefab, we found the level of design and approachable scale of this Canadian cabin to be irresistibly charming. The owners asked Toronto-based architecture firm

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In a world full of deceptive marketing and ambiguous ad campaigns, it’s refreshing to get a straight story; which is why today’s prefab pick has such obvious appeal. Prefabmod is exactly what

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Karim Rashid’s Kit24 house was revealed several weeks ago at Toronto’s 2006 Interior Design Show. When we last wrote about Kit24, we could only gaze at the candy-coated renderings and dream of

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Some time ago, we wrote about Icelandic design firm Glama-Kim’s prefab Summerhouse. A few days ago, I got a nice email from architect Olafur Mathiesen with an update on their work, including some

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If prefab styles can be categorized geographically, the kitHAUS is truly Southern Californian. Its luminous and airy interior, lightweight exterior, vibrant wood paneling and soaring windows almost create

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We just can’t get enough of Andrew Maynard, so we thought we’d say a few more words about him for our Prefab Friday roundup. In the diverse collection of projects in Maynard’s portfolio,

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We’ve talked a few times about urban bioremediation projects, in which trees and plants are used as tools to clean contaminated land. This kind of renewal not only spares the use of invasive

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We’ve waited a long time to talk about this little eco-friendly gem, and now we’re glad we did, because the Sustain Design Studio team has recently added many fantastic images to their

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Utilizing the flat-pack techniques of IKEA and the massive container ships that have brought Wal-Mart total domestic dominance, Vestal Designs is taking advantage of international shipping dimensions with

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