Latest Stories in Modular Design
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Kiss House is a modern Passivhaus flatpack made from CLT
This pushes almost every TreeHugger button.
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This shipping container house makes sense
It's the solid anchor for a hand-built recycled gem.
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Prefab workers' housing to be built out of cross laminated timber
Little wood boxes will be stacked into really big building on remote BC fracking site.
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SkyCity Challenge: a design competition to figure out how to use the world's tallest prefab
There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.
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PopUp Student Residence still pops
It's modular and passivhaus and still looks good.
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Modular Drop Box is a prefab portable suite for stays in nature
This compact, wood-clad cabin is made as a comfortable eco-hotel suite in natural settings.
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Predicting our Future: A new podcast series looks at prefab
It's a great overview of the industry, but not without some caveats
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Smart, affordable & energy-efficient 352 sq. ft. prefab Kasita is now in production
The company is offering a new-and-improved micro-home with lots of tech goodies that's now commercially available.
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Can a border wall with Mexico made from shipping containers be "eco-friendly and sustainable"?
How to taint shipping containers, sustainability and eco-friendliness all in one fell swoop.
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Norman Oder on The World's Tallest Modular Building and the Phantom 20 Percent Savings
The Brooklyn Journalist covered this project like a blanket, and looks at some of the detailed claims.
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It's time for another look at plug-in housing
Can the vertical trailer park cut the price of housing?
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Is the world finally ready for uhü, the plug and play prefab?
It's an idea that many have dreamed about for years- affordable, moveable plug-in housing
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Werner Sobek designs refugee housing that anyone would be proud and happy to live in
Because everyone deserves a decent roof over their head.
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Gorgeous new prefab is modular. Or is it Flat-pack? Or post-and-beam? Never mind.
These designs from Leckie Studio and the Backcountry Hut Company are lovely to look at, but what are they really?
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New prefab in Uruguay shows the evolution of the industry
The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Modular Plugin Tower is flexible housing for the ordinary citizen (Video)
Using a steel spaceframe and prefabricated walls, this design is intended to give another option to people who want their own homes without the regulatory hassle.
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Vietnamese hostel is built from shipping containers
It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there
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Australian architects are making the most of modular
Lai Cheong Brown Architects show how to build on remote sites, like French Island in Victoria
