Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 10
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FabCab: The Ageing Boomer's Prefab
As the boomer generation hits retirement, where are they going to live? Many will want to stay in their neighbourhoods, close to their family. In an era where it is becoming impossible to get a mortgage, perhaps they may even want to share their house
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Plant Room: Clip-On Shed For Apartment Buildings
Those of us lucky enough to have yards can consider a garden shed as way of getting a little more space. But what about those in apartments and condominiums? They don't have basements or spare rooms or space for a shed.
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Fincube "Sustainable Nomadic House" Is New Entry From Loftcube Architect
Fans of modern prefab will remember the iconic Loftcube, introduced around 2003 and photoshopped onto roofs and into ads everywhere. Now Werner Aisslinger has designed the Fincube House, 506 square feet of space that treads lightly- it requires a base
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Flexa Studio: A Modern Off-The-Rack Green Garden Office
Dan Gregory of House Plans shows us their new Flexa Studio, designed by Casper Mork-Ulnes, the creative director of Modern Cabana. It is a 120 square foot garden shed made of green materials (FSC certified framing, lumber, and siding, recycled denim
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Inflatable House Has Traditional Form
We love buildings that tread lightly and leave no trace, that give us a little extra room when we need it. (see all of our garden shed offices) Everyone has seen inflatable domes those jumping structures that kids love so much, but Altro Studio has
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Jennifer Siegal's Showhouse Lands In Joshua Tree
Jennifer Siegal's ShowHouse was designed to "exhibit the ideas of prefabrication, flexibility, portability and compact spaciousness." The 12' x 60' prefab sat on an urban lot in Venice, California for a while, and now has found a home in Joshua Tree,
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Affresol: Prefab Houses Made From Plastic Landfill
It may well be the ugliest house we have shown on TreeHugger, and it is made of garbage, too. But Ian McPherson of Welsh startup Affresol takes plastic waste, grinds it down to little granules. They then mix it with liquid resin and pour it like
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"Portable Housing" Is Really A Vertical Trailer Park
Brazilian Architect Felipe Campolina's Portable Housing does not appear to have made it to the finals of the Evolo 2010 skyscraper competition, but has shown up in Designboom. It is perhaps one of the most revolutionary; Your home becomes portable and
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Containers to Clinics: Out of the Box Healthcare
Anshen + Allen via Metropolis Containers to Clinics is a non-profit founded by Elizabeth Sheehan to "develop a new model for heath service delivery"- they outfit shipping containers with the latest in equipment, medicine and staff and deliver them to
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Rammed Earth + Prefab = Quick and Cheap DIY House
Last year's container house by Chuta Sinthuphan of Site-Specific was such a hit at a Bangkok home show that the firm was invited back to do another model. This time, Chuta tells us: "Because when people
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Modern Modular Done Right from Challenger Living
A lot of lessons have been learned over the last decade as architects and manufacturers try to make modern green prefab affordable and accessible to a wider audience. A new entry into the market is Challenger, a modern architect-designed line of
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ContainR Theatre Shows Sports Films During Olympics
Can't afford a ticket to an event? Go hang out in the ContainR, a "street installation at the nexus of video, public art and urban design, sitting at the cross roads of mountain and urban culture, art and sports cinema, embracing public
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5 Shed Interiors at IDS2010 Range From Practical to Over-the-Top Glam
We show a lot of garden sheds in TreeHugger; they are a great way to get some extra space without having to get building permits or renovate. But we rarely show their interiors; they are hard to
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Blu Homes Unfolds A Reinvention of Modular Housing
I first heard of Blu Homes when they purchased the intellectual assets of Michelle Kaufmann back at the end of September. There was not a lot of information about them at the time, and having been in the modular
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100 Shipping Containers Become Student Housing in France
Yet another proposal for putting students in boxes, this time in Le Havre by olgga Architects, "a multidisciplinary agency federated around 3 different personalities with different yet complimentary backgrounds and studies." Designboom says it is "a
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ContainerSpace: A Shipping Container as Zero Carbon Art Gallery
George Mason University is home to over 40 conservative think tanks, many of which think climate change is a hoax; fortunately the School of Art is a different place, where they care about their carbon footprint. They
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Are Shipping Containers An Answer For Haiti Housing?
The Clemson University School of Architecture is having a moment of fame with their SEED project, where they turn shipping containers into housing. In the wake of the Haiti disaster, Professor Doug Hecker tout the virtues of the magic box in
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Living Homes Retools For Lower Prices, Wider Distribution
Living Homes have been TreeHugger regulars, with their LEED Platinum ratings and great modern Ray Kappe designs. But a big complaint was that they were really expensive. They were also designs that were very much part of their environment, very
