Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 6
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Futuro Flying Saucer Prefab Lands In Rotterdam
The Futuro, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1964, was a technological and design tour de force, built in an optimistic era when Bucky Fuller, Archigram and Joe Columbo were
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Print Out Your Own Home With WikiHouse
Four years ago, when writing about The Digital House, I wrote: Imagine ordering a custom house, connecting lightweight, manageable pieces without a crane, living in a house where the framing is furniture quality and you don't
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The Modern Green Prefab MiniHome Lands At The Green Eco-Trailer Park
Six years ago, I was not doing a very good job of selling modern prefabs, which meant I had a lot of time to write part-time for TreeHugger. The fundamental problem was that the people who loved the idea of a small modern
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The Shipping Container News: Boxes Turned Into a Playground in Manchester, Popup Stores in Toronto
Proof that big boys can still have fun playing with boxes; BDP, the second biggest architectural firm in the UK has built a temporary installation of "music boxes" for the Manchester International Festival.
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Clayton i-house Modern Prefab Built in "Sustainable Community"
One of the lessons in the first wave of modern prefab, almost a decade ago now, was that it was easy to get excited about small green designs, but you had to have a place to put them. The same issue is facing the current pioneers
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xbo Mobile Unit Sticks Is A Minimalist Classic
One of the wonderful things about Architizer, the " open community created by architects for architects", is that so many projects turn up that one may have missed the first time around. A good example is the
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The Autonomous House By Michael Jantzen Is A Thirty-Year-Old Green Wonder
I have not posted much of the recent work of Michael Jantzen on TreeHugger; he has interesting visions but very little reality, mainly renderings of architectural wonders in open fields. (Jerry covered a recent one here.)
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Shipping Containers Turned Into Shopping Mall in London's BoxPark
BoxPark is "the world's first pop-up shopping mall", being built at the Shoreditch High Street station in London. It's designed by Waugh Thistleton, known to TreeHuggers for their Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks
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Fabulous Flatpack Week'nder By Charlie Lazor
Charlie Lazor has been designing some of the loveliest modern prefab houses in the country since the beginning of the start of the prefab meme. But there is something really
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Tata Introduces Flatpack Nano House: 215 Square Feet For $720
TATA, which famously brought a $2500 car to India, is now is taking orders for an entire house (without garage for the nano car) for 32,000 rupees ($720). That's $3.34 per square foot!
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CityHub Plug-In Pop-Up Modular Hotel Is A Better Capsule
Building hotels is expensive, and so is staying in them, particularly in Europe. Sem Schuurkes and Pieter van Tilburg have developed an L shaped pop-up hotel room that can be put in any building. Unlike Japanese capsule hotels, the L shape gives one
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Daiwa's Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House Is Coming To America (Video)
TreeHugger first showed the Daiwa EDV-1, the amazing robotic shipping container instant house, back in January. Now the prototype is coming Stateside (no doubt carried by supersonic helicopters) in July for Little Tokyo Design Week in Los Angeles. The
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The Container of Hope: Designed For People, Not Stuff
Shipping containers were designed for stuff, not humans, and by the time architects finish adapting them for people there often isn't much left of them. But they are cheap and plentiful, and
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Is the London Olympic Basketball Venue The Ugliest Building Ever?
I was shocked and appalled at Bonnie's post on the London Olympic basketball stadium; it gives flatpack a bad name. It looks the the shrink-wrapped boats you see at marinas in winter. It looks like a giant bunion pad. Now I know this is not a
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Prefab News: "Mobile Home" Gets New Meaning As Entire House Stolen
I always wondered why manufactured homes were called "mobile homes" when they are usually plopped on a foundation and become completely immobile. But they are certainly mobile in Dundalk, Ontario; according to the Daily Mail:
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Cargotecture Lands At Sunset Celebration
Sunset Magazine always makes a splash on their Celebration Weekend with a model home; Michelle Kaufmann got her big launch when they presented her first Glidehouse there, and the first Breezehouse in 2005. They are
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Casa Garoza: A Prefab Prototype For A Growing House
Spanish architects Herreros Arquitectos have completed phase one of what Avi Friedman called a Grow Home, which he defined as "a quality product that allows both the perimeter and interior
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SLI Prefab System Turns Construction Upside Down
Images credit Doug Scott Jetson Green and MocoLoco are showing the new prefabricated building system from Sustainable Living Innovations, or SLI. It is a fascinating and innovative technology that really does turn building multifamily residential
