Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 11
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The Glidehouse Is At The End Of The Road For Green Modern Prefab
In 2002 Allison Arieff and Bryan Burkhart wrote Prefab and started a revolution. Architects and entrepreneurs all over America started looking at prefab differently. Early off the mark were Michelle Kaufmann, who launched her Glidehouse, and myself,
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Hermitage Hut By Dans Mon Arbre Adjusts to Climate
all images via dansmonarbre Dansmonarbre of Grenoble, France, is a company "specializing in arboreal activities." One of their projects, the Hermitage, was less arboreal and more shed-like, a "place to allow a person or a couple to experience special
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SODD: Sustainable Building System from Édouard François
I didn't quite know what to make of the email from TreeHugger favourite Édouard François, showing his new installation SODD. Designboom to the rescue, telling us that it is part of FIAC, an exhibition involving 210 exhibitors showing
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Got A Shed Design In Mind? Enter The Shed Design Competition
Shed design is fascinating because so many architects and designers have tried it. It is the entry drug for modern prefab, a way for designers to put something out there and people who need a little more space to get it without building permits or
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Michelle Kaufmann Prefab Designs Live Again With Sale to Blu Homes
When Michelle Kaufmann closed her prefab business in May, I was saddened but not surprised; the housing industry and the lenders that made it possible were in deep freeze or bankruptcy. But if there was one thing you could bank on, it was that Michelle
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Goodbye Lego House: Next Time Get Planning Permission
A few weeks ago the Lego House was on all the blogs; it was built for BBC personality James May's TV show at a vineyard in Dorking, UK. It wasn't really built out of Lego, more just clad in it (it has a wood frame) and isn't really green (how can
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Parasite Prefabs Cling To Walls, Bridges
Buildings don't have to just sit on the ground; Australian architect Lara Calder's Parasite Prefabs just grow wherever they can get away with it, on the sides of bridges, rock faces or old buildings. Designboom says "It
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Red+Housing Emergency Housing by OBRA Architects
So many architects have tried their hand at emergency housing; Cameron Sinclair has shown many pictures of little domes and boxes that the people move out of the first chance they get. Now OBRA architects present their version, for an exhibition on on
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Preform Modern Prefabs
These are tough times for modern prefab, but for every company going out of business, there are others willing to try. Vancouver architect Tony Robins offers his Preform line, built in Surrey, British Columbia, "close to the river for barging and to
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World's Tallest Modular Prefab Almost Complete
The world's tallest modular prefab is almost complete for the start of the school year at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK. John M, Creative Commons. Note the concrete core and the modules being stacked on the
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Maja: Prefab from Finland Treads Lightly
These are tough times to be introducing a new prefab, but Finnish-Japanese designer Naoto Niidome and furniture manufacturer Aamon are launching a new three-season cottage at the Finnish design fair Habitare09.
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Prefab Pod House Design By Broissin Architects
Broissin Architects of Naucalpan, Mexico designed this three-storey prefab pod for an exhibition at Hacienda la Concepción at Tepotzotlán México. It has a "hydroponia" area on the ground floor, kitchen, living and bath on second and bedrooms on top. It
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buBle is More than a Tent, Less than a House
In these difficult times there are a lot of people on the move. Studio MMASA (Patricia Muñiz + Luciano G. Alfaya) with the collaboration of the architect-artist Cipriano Chas, have developed the buBle as a form of temporary accommodation:
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The Stealth Chicken Coop - Keeping Swine Flu and Zoning Officers At Bay
With fall approaching, public health authorities are planning for the 'worst-case' scenario swine flu outbreak. Imagine schools closed for weeks on end. You and the family staring
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Zeta Communities: Net Zero Energy Urban Prefabs That May Actually Work
It is a tough time to be in the prefab biz; your costs are pretty much fixed, while the conventional stickbuilding trades will work for food these days. It is tougher still to sell prefab wholesale to developers; they are not
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Neat Little Shipping Container Prefab Built in Bangkok
Thai designer Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Site-Specific first made a splash in these pages with a demonstration project at a home show; now they show us a neat little one-bedroom house built from two 20 foot containers designed for hot, humid
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New York's Pier 57 Will Become a Park on Shipping Containers
LOT-EK, YoungWoo Chosen For Lively Pier Renewal Plan Not far from the High Line, another decaying piece of New York infrastructure is bound for a green revival: Pier 57, the decaying concrete hulk on New York's Hudson's River will be transformed into a
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Super Sheds: Coming to Your Backyard Soon
As we noted last year in an earlier roundup of modern sheds, they are an great way to get more space without more mortgage, and the gateway drug for modern prefab. There has been so much action in the shed world that it is time for an update.
