The 7.83 Hz House: Green, Prefab, Reconfigurable
by Justin Thomas, Virginia on 03.13.07
Featured in the latest issue of Dwell, the "7.83 Hz" house was created by Simon Beames and Simon Dickens of the fledging London-based design house YOUMEHESHE. The firm was set-up to develop an innovative, potentially revolutionary design, which would make a carbon-neutral, eco-friendly, prefab house available to the mass market. Designed to delivered on just two trucks, the prefab is assembled from precut, biodynamically grown wooden panels, which are doweled together onsite rather than glued. The house costs about $170,000 (this does not include land cost). It's constructed around a central core, through which service areas run and heat rises. The interior can be altered as families grow or shrink, with floors added to create new bedrooms. See more images of the home here). See also: YOUMEHESHE: New British Prefab. Via: Dwell
It is really cool but the average american is not going to do this.we need designs that apeal to "joe six pack" and are sustainable and energy efficient.As a building contractor for 25 years I can say that the normal American client really does not care about this stuff,but if you can show him he will have a lower energy bill and save some money they will do it,even people who dont care about green.More or less you can trick them into being a treehuger and by the time they figure it out it is too late.......the tree has been hug
Another way to look at it is this is cool but prefab homes can ignore local materials, siting, local labor, etc.