The L41 Prefab Home Packs a Whole Lot into a Tiny Space

This cute little prefab is only 220 sq ft and was designed for these unsteady economic times. In other words, it's cheap! Called the <a href="http://l41home.com/L41home.com/Home.html" target="_blank">L41 Home</a> and conceived by architect <a title="http://www.katzarchitecture.com" href="http://www.katzarchitecture.com/">Michael Katz</a> and artist <a title="http://www.janetcorne.com" href="http://www.janetcorne.com/">Janet Corne</a>, the prefab home is ultra-compact, built with green materials and energy efficient. Designed to be constructed on piers or a four-point foundation, the home could easily be located on any site with minimal impact. Eventually the designers hope that they can produce it for just $50,000 each.

The goal of the designers of the home is that it will eventually be able to be mass-produced much like a car and become very affordable with economies of scale.

The studio comes with a kitchen, bathroom and living/bedroom space along with tons of built in storage.

The kitchen, while compact is certainly ample and larger, even, than many NYC apartments.

The sweet little green roof is visible with plant sticking up.

The L41home exhibited at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

The L41 house also comes in a 1-bedroom size as well as a 2-bedroom size.

A model of the L41 house on pier foundation with room for a compact car underneath.

The L41 can also be used to build multi-unit developments and apartment buildings.

The L41 shown in an even larger high rise building.

The homes are constructed of cross-laminated beetle kill lumber, which is very strong and makes use of wood in the forest that would otherwise rot.