Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 14
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Cabin Kits from Copeland Casati
I find it interesting that so many women have become leaders in the prefab movement. Pioneers were Jennifer Siegel, Rocio Romero and Michelle Kaufmann (this year's Residential Architect of the Year). Two years ago we were
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Less is More: Sheds For Living
Richard Frankland of Manchester's FKDA has developed a small but complete little housing unit that is much more than a shed. "The idea of creating such a small living environment came from the growing reports of people being forced from their homes
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Container Housing Jumps the Shark
Mocoloco tells us: The 2+ Weekend House is a container house with a difference - it's made with containers manufactured expressly for housing (vs. cargo containers). "As opposed to the other container projects, which mostly feed on the excess of
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Reaction Housing Stacks Up Against Trailers
In the prefab biz there is always the tradeoff between modular, where one has to ship a lot of air at great cost but it is delivered almost complete, and flatpack, where shipping is much cheaper because one can pack more units in a smaller space, but
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Green Temporary Showroom by Vector Architects
It is a sort of showroom for a residential project, the likes of which are often built and then thrown away. This one is designed for easy demolition and recovery after use.
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Puma City: Container Retail by Lot-Ek
Nobody does shipping container architecture like Lot-ek, one of the originals. They have designed a demountable retail space for Puma, with "with large double heights as well as with 4-container-wide open spaces to challenge the
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GreenBuild: Project Frog
A great way to start one's visit to Greenbuild in Boston is at Project Frog, a prefabricated building system that is as far from the standard school portable as a Prius is from an Edsel. (Seen previously in TreeHugger at Project Frog: Too Cool for
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Modern Prefab + Credit Crunch = Teardown
The architects of the prefabs at the MoMA show Home Delivery were allowed to sell their houses at the end of the show. Most were more works of art rather than livable houses, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that there were not many takers. Only
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Emergency Response Studio by Paul Villinksi
Artist Paul Villinski has done a fab refab of a prefab, stripping out the guts of a 30' Gulfstream Cavalier FEMA Trailer of all formaldehyde-contaminated materials and rebuilding it with recycled denim insulation, reclaimed wood floors and bamboo
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SEED [pod] Incremental Housing from Binary Studios
Binary Studios suggest that their Small Energy Efficient Dwelling is like a plant: "As the seedpod protects and nourishes the seed in the initial stages of the embryonic plant, the SEED [pod] equivalently recognizes the social contract of architecture
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Folding Bamboo Houses by Ming Tang
Jorge at Inhabitat calls Ming Tang's temporary shelters "origami inspired"; They remind me more of the tensile structures of Frei Otto They were developed as temporary shelters for the homeless after last May's earthquake in Chian that left millions
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N55's Walking House Actually Walks!
When we previously presented Danish designer N55's walking house it was just a model, and we asked miniHome designer Andy Thomson what he thought of it; he suggested "You should tell them wheels will be cheaper!" I never thought it would get past the
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Redondo Beach House by DeMaria Design
A commenter at BoingBoing noted that our roundup of container housing did not include the Redondo Beach house by DeMaria Design; I am pleased to
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A Clean Break: Modern Prefab Comes to Philadelphia
Geoff Warner's Wee House and Altius/ Andy Thomson's miniHome, now in new fire-engine red cladding, are on the move to Philadelphia for A Clean Break, a show of modern prefab at the Minima Gallery
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Stair of the Week: The Prefabs at Home Delivery
With only 570 square feet to play with, Oscar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Ruf devote a good portion of the System3 house at the Home Delivery exhibition to this lovely stair, with hundreds of mini-portholes lighting the way.
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Home Delivery: Modern Prefab Lives Fast, Dies Young, Leaves Good Looking Corpse
The show starts on the sidewalk: Visiting Home Delivery at the at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Ecopods: Shipping Container Housing Available Now
Dwight Doerkson has developed "an affordable eco friendly building that’s transportable and doesn’t need to be hooked up to the grid"- out of shipping containers. He cuts out an entire wall and hinges it, so when you want to leave your ecopod you
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Bright Built Barn is Net-Zero Energy
"The next generation of sustainable building practices will not be about material performance or building imprint on local environments. The next generation of our most sustainable structures will be about designing with future adaptations and
