Latest Stories in Modular Design - Page 8
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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
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Jenesys Flatpack Homes: The Real Thing Looks Better Than The Renderings
Windows can be a problem for architects; We probably use too many of them, not for the light they bring in but for the way they look. But even the best windows have only a fraction of the insulating quality of the walls
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Greg Lavardera + Tedd Benson = Alliance For Modern Methods of Construction
Tedd Benson is one of the most interesting builders in America; he has been looking at the way houses have been put together for years, and has built a number of homes shown on TreeHugger, including perhaps my
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Plug-in Cities Making A Comeback
In 1965 Archigram envisioned the Plug-in City. Geoff at Bldgblog describes it: Archigram proposed using construction cranes as permanent parts of their buildings. The crane could thus lift new modular rooms into place, add whole new floors to the
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Prefab Is So 19th Century: Iron Prefabs Shipped 'Round The World
Living Steel commissioned an interesting article on the history of steel and iron prefabs. Professor Miles Lewis explains how Britain shipped wrought iron and corrugated steel houses to California and Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s, when
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Clayton's i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines To Find The Future Of Prefab
Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that "I-house has
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Another Reason Modern Green Prefab Is Tough: Construction Financing
I was intrigued by a recent post from prefabber Blu Homes about construction financing. They wrote: "The homeowner must procure construction financing - a short term, interest only loan that will give
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Mix'n Match Prefab: A New Approach from Michelle Kaufmann
One of the problems of modern prefab is to find a balance between the efficiency of standard plans and the flexibility of customization. Michelle Kaufmann gives us an exclusive preview of a new concept, where you mix and match different, but standard,
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Friggebod Fun: MiniHouse From Add-A-Room
So much of what we build is a response to regulation; from garden sheds to modular homes, it is the rules that define the forms. Swedish Housing Minister, Birgit Friggebo exempted buildings under 150 square feet from the building codes;
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Plant Room Clips on to Existing Apartments for Food and Energy
Think of it as a garden shed for the high-rise: Plant Room is a clip-on room that provides a bit of green space, hot water, rainwater collection and even a worm farm for the apartment dweller. We covered it briefly in March, but the designers have
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Simple, Stunning Spanish Prefab Assembled In Three Days
It is hard to call a big expensive second home in the country green. On the other hand, sometimes they are just so stunning and have so many great design ideas in them that you just
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Condo Sales Office Built Out of Shipping Containers And Looks It
There is no form of architecture more ephemeral than the condo sales office, where a lot of money is spent to construct a temporary building that tries to represent the image of the building. Rarely does it go against type.
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Prefab Platinum Prescott Passive House Built on a Budget
Dan Rockhill's Studio 804 is such a wonderful idea for teaching architecture. He and his team design, build and then sell a house every year in challenged parts of Kansas City, and each is an innovative mix of design and technology. This year, with the
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India Goes Prefab (PHOTOS)
"Plug-in living" is coming to India, in the guise of what design blog Design Flute is calling India's first prefab green villa. Designer Pinakin Patel calls it the Hara Villa- Hara being Hindi for "green."
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Prefab Meets Loft With Interior Living Unit
As people move back downtown, and as more office and factory buildings become superfluous, it is a logical fit to convert them to residential or live-work. For his thesis at Cranbrook, Andrew Kline looked at the issue of how
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Lumenhaus From Virginia Tech Wins Solar Decathlon Europe
inhabitat cheers USA! USA! as Virginia Tech wins the Solar Decathlon over some tough competition. It is a surprising win for a number of reasons; the unit was in the Solar Decathlon 2009 and did not win there. To my eye, it was
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Petaluma Pop-up Prototype: Affordable Kit House From HousePort
Hally Thacher is offering a "a new, clean, simple concept in architecture", the PopUP from House Port. Dwell includes it in their "Houses We Love" section, saying it addresses the demand for "low-cost, stylish, sustainable residential homes." Inhabitat
