BURST*008: More Prefab at MoMA's Home Delivery Exhibition
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 07. 8.08
We look at the five prefabs being installed at the MOMA for Home Delivery.
Douglas Gauthier of Gauthier Architects and Jeremy Edmiston of SYSTEMarchitects in New York are building the BURST*008 which they consider to be more of a kit home than a prefab. Like Lawrence Sass's New Orleans home, it is cut out of plywood with a CNC machine, but there the similarity ends. They describe it as " a tension-based structure. The ribs provide the sub-structure but are not complete without the skin to lock them down. The skin—the floors, the walls, and the roof—is made of insulated panels which are pre-cut to accommodate the ribs precisely. Once the ribs are locked in place, everything is held taut, much in the same way that a hide creates tension on a drum. These panels are pre-treated with insulation so that as soon as the skin goes on, the house is fully insulated."
Gauthier and Edmiston are perhaps the least well-known on the prefab scene of all the architects in the exhibition, and their design is probably the most complicated. Will they make it in time? We will let you know on the 20th of July.
More Prefabricated Housing from Home Delivery:
Home Delivery: Digitally Fabricated Housing
Five Modern Prefabs Coming to the MOMA
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i was in NYC this weeked and was upset to see that i would just miss this exhibit. the structures that they have done so far look great. The Kieran Timberlake will be the most interesting too me. You should look into an article on it as well. i have progress photos from this past weekend.
We provided these fine folks with some LED fixtures to install in this house. We are very excited to see how it comes out.
More specifically, we provided this project with the LED 9W Recessed Light, the LED 1W Recessed Light, and the LED Mississippi Strip Lights. You can view these products here: www.ledwaves.com
Go "green" today by joining the LED revolution!