Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 7
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Passive R-House Wins AIA Housing Award
A year ago we showed sketches of the R-House in Syracuse That Can Be Heated With A Hair Dryer. This 1100 square foot Passivhaus, designed by Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office is now complete and has
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Shelf-Pod Built From a Lattice of Structural Bookshelves
When I recently wrote about Brickbox bookshelves, one commenter said "get a kindle! it makes moving WAAAAY easier!" Kyle may be right, but we will lose something when we go all digital, including libraries like this one.
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BIG wins Big in E2 Wood Design Competition
In 1914 Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (not yet Le Corbusier) developed his idea for the Dom-ino House, where the traditional wood frame was replaced by concrete slabs and thin columns for maximize flexibility. Now Starchitect Bjarke Ingells and BIG channel
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Sears Mail-Order Home From 1925 Was a Prefab Pioneer (Slideshow)
Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck sold over 70,000 houses in 447 different designs. They were not strictly prefabricated, but were precut packages that included the lumber, siding, windows and even the nails. While the look was
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Prefabs Sprout All Over USA; Rounding Up The Green, Tiny and Luxe
I will confess to a case of prefab ennui; I have waited a decade for it to make green modern design affordable and accessible and it has not yet fulfilled its promise. Where once the prefab proselytizers could claim that
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Shipping Containers Being Used Everywhere for Everything
There are so many shipping container projects around right now that it is impossible to keep up! Here is a quick recap of some of the interesting ones rolling in over the last few days. Jetson Green shows us the Sushi Box from
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The EDV-1 From Daiwa: The Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House
Images Credit Daiwa Cameron Sinclair is so going to want 10,000 of these amazing robotic shipping container sized instant houses. EDV stands for Emergency Disaster Vehicles, but it is really a pushbutton house that leaves Adam Kalkin in its wake. It is
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Wendy Koch on the Future of Green Prefab
Wendy Koch of USA Today writes Home builders see green prefab potential and talks to just about everyone still standing, including Tedd Benson, Sheri Koones, Preston Koerner, Michelle Kaufmann Sarah Susanka and Lloyd Alter. She looks at companies like
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World In A Shell Is A Mobile Shipping Container Art Project
Shipping containers don't make very good houses, but they are very good at carrying things all over the world. Artist Hans Kalliwoda solves this problem by filling his container with everything one needs to survive,
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Mobile Architecture is Wonderful, Until You Try To Find A Place to Put It
One of the problems in mobile architecture is that there aren't a lot of places to put it. There are trailer parks for trailers, and urban lots for houses, but if you are in the city and you want to park a minihome or a
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Naked House Combines Flatpack, Containers and CLT Panels
How did I miss this one? It pushes every button. British architecture firm drmm designed the Naked House for an exhibition in Norway in 2006; it is delivered (and is built on top of) a shipping container, filled to
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Contertainer is Cross of Container and Entertainment
I do often wonder about container architecture; whether it is done because it is cheap, or whether it is done as an attention grabber. One certainly knows where the Indonesian firm dpavilion
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The Perfect Garden Shed For America: Vostok Cabin
I have often mused that the shedworking movement would never really catch on in America because people are so obsessed with security and wouldn't leave all that expensive stuff out in a the garden. Dutch design studio
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T-Modulome From Nottoscale Demonstrates The Evolution of Modern Prefab
Back in about 2004, in the early days of the modern prefab craze, I first learned of Peter Strzebniok and his Nottoscale prefabs. At the time his designs were based on " a steel framework which allows individual building elements to be interchanged."
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Sustainable Cabin is Homage to Thoreau, Le Corbusier
"What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
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MEKA Prefab Takes Manhattan, Raises Questions About The Future Of Housing
Since the invention of the shipping container and the revolution in transport it caused, the globalization of world trade has changed the face of manufacturing. About the only industry that did not move to China was
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Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers
TreeHugger has shown quite a few shipping container houses and even a few shipping container buildings, but never anything on the scale of the work of Allied Container Systems; they build entire cities out of shipping containers. But
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Interface Studio Builds Modular Student Residence
Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate
