Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 16
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Home Delivery: Digitally Fabricated Housing
It is getting awfully close to the July 20 opening of Home Delivery at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where five architects are building and displaying seriously cutting-edge prefabs. We will be looking at each of them this week.
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Toyota Cranking Out More Prefabs
It isn't bad looking. It's a prefab built by Toyota in an assembly line with robots and conveyor belts, and comes with a sixty year warranty. It is fire and earthquake-proof. It will soon come with an electrical system that can charge up your car
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Abilmo Pop-up Hotel Rooms: Instant Accommodation
We have shown a few instant hotel room ideas before; they are big in Europe where there are a lot of festivals and a lot of people with a lot of money who need something better than a tent. Abilmo squeezes a lot of stuff into 12 Sqm, (130 SF) including
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Construction Starting On Dubious Dubai Twirling Tower?
We have been dubious about Architect David Fisher's rotating tower for Dubai, with its wind turbines built in between each floor, and its claims that "the building will generate 10 times more energy than required to power it." We also wondered about
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Vote For the Shed of the Year
Garden sheds are becoming all the rage in America and TreeHugger has shown lots of them, but in the UK it is a highly developed art. They even have websites devoted to them like Shedworking and Weheartsheds, and a competition to pick the best. We have
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Totally Tubular Modern Prefab
Around 1960, Swiss artist Guy Dessauges wondered why we were so square. "La voûte résiste à des pressions beaucoup plus grandes que le plafond plat. The vault resists pressure much larger than the flat ceiling. Pour la même qualité de matériaux. For
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Summer Sights: George Maciunas Prefab at Maya Stendhal Gallery
Artist George Maciunas worked on the design of modern prefab from the late 50s through the mid sixties. " Designed for quick and easy assembly with a minimum number of components necessary, the structure requires no heavy machinery, and can be erected
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Wall House Available Off the Rack
We loved the Wall House back in 2007, as did much of the design press around the world; now Chilean architects FAR frohn&rojas; are selling the plans and specifications to anyone who wants them.
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Katrina Cottages Rolled Out By Lowes Nationwide
1200 SF 2 storey Katrina Cottage Some say it is an exercise in bad branding, like naming a line of prefabs ‘Mt. St. Helens Villas’ or ‘Hurricane Andrew Mobile Homes.’ But in fact Marianne Cusato's original Katrina Cottage was so cute that "Katrina
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Michelle Kaufmann Prefab On Exhibit In Chicago
A few weeks ago, the
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In Pod We Trust
It is a "continental camping hut" from Newfoundland Leisure Lodges, which appears to have nothing to do with Newfoundland and makes otherwise fairly conventional prefabs. It is 13'6 long and 8'-6 wide and can be dropped off a truck or can come with a
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London Olympic Stadium To Be World's Biggest Flatpack
Well, that is what the Guardian calls it. They say that the new stadium proposed for the 2012 Olympics is being designed to be demountable, so that it can be sold after the games. They note also that it could be "the first step in a new approach to the
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Small Lot Prefab From Resolution 4
When we last looked at a modern prefab from Resolution 4, we got a particularly loud round complaints about it being a big second home and therefore not very green. Visiting Joe Tanney in his New York office, I asked if he had anything small, green and
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Design for Deconstruction by Alberto Mozó
Zoning determines the value of land, and if your site is zoned for a twelve storey building you can be pretty sure that anything that is a lot smaller is not going to be around for long. You could build it cheap and fast (like they do in North America)
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Container Condo To Be Built In Detroit
A 17-unit condominium built from shipping containers is being proposed for Detroit, on lots now vacant or containing burned-out homes. According to the Detroit Free Press, "The project would stack empty containers four high, cut in windows and doors,
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EvolutiV by Olgga Architectes
The 70 square meter Maison evolutiV was shown at the Salon Européen du bois et de l'Habitat Durable in April. It looks like a few container projects we have seen but is made from wood. (that is the point of the Salon) It was designed by olgga
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Shipping Container House By Ross Stevens
It is a wall of containers, built against a hill in Wellington, New Zealand, designed and built by Ross Stevens. It uses the spaces between the containers and the hill to expand its living
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Climate Change Protection Complex
That's what they call this new prefab from the Survival Center in McKenna, Washington, the perfect home for the new survivalists. They take five of these steel 27 foot long tanks and link them together, and includes everything you will need to survive
