A great way to start one's visit to Greenbuild in Boston is at Project Frog, a prefabricated building system that is as far from the standard school portable as a Prius is from an Edsel. (Seen previously in TreeHugger at Project Frog: Too Cool for School
We recently showed Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio that was a wood shop on wheels; Here is an interesting version from 1938 of a woodworking shop that would tour California schools. From Modern Mechanix...
Photo: Orca Yapı Sistemleri
In Turkish, the word for a slum is gecekondu, meaning "settled overnight." A prefabricated house doesn't go up quite that quickly, but mass production can make homes--of both the conventional and ecofriendly type--available to more people at varying income levels.
Around America tent cities are springing up as people are losing their houses and their jobs. And it isn't just the drunks and the disturbed; at this tent city in Reno, Seven in 10 were from the area, where the housing market has cratered, the tourism industry is in the dumps and construction jobs have disappeared. They are the modern Hoovervilles (Bushburbs?) filled with economic refugees.
Artist Paul Villinski has done a fab refab of a prefab, stripping out the guts of a 30' Gulfstream Cavalier FEMA Trailer of all formaldehyde-contaminated materials and rebuilding it with recycled denim insulation, reclaimed wood floors and bamboo cabinetry.
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Binary Studios suggest that their Small Energy Efficient Dwelling is like a plant: "As the seedpod protects and nourishes the seed in the initial stages of the embryonic plant, the SEED [pod] equivalently recognizes the social contract of architecture to serve those in need by providing high quality affordable dwelling units to the large population that is typically underserved by the design community."...
Jorge at Inhabitat calls Ming Tang's temporary shelters "origami inspired"; They remind me more of the tensile structures of Frei Otto They were developed as temporary shelters for the homeless after last May's earthquake in Chian that left millions homeless and shown at the Urban Re:vision competition. ...
When we previously presented Danish designer N55's walking house it was just a model, and we asked miniHome designer Andy Thomson what he thought of it; he suggested "You should tell them wheels will be cheaper!" I never thought it would get past the model stage. But if you watch the video you will see that, remarkabl...
This is a reconstruction of a previously published post lost when a Porsche crashed into our server farm.
We have previously mentioned the exhibition of modern prefab, A Clean Break opening in Philadelphia on October 16; in addition to the WeeHouse and MiniHome, there is also an exhibition, including work by Interface Studio Architects, who designed the 100K House, which is most definitely not a prefab in the traditional sense.
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Geoff Warner's Wee House and Altius/ Andy Thomson's miniHome, now in new fire-engine red cladding, are on the move to Philadelphia for A Clean Break, a show of modern prefab at the Minima Gallery
"Promoting 'clean' development — aesthetically and ecologically — the exhibition features innovative design solutions from international architects and designers, addressing issues of urban infill, 21st century development and sustainability."...
Friggebods are small swedish cottages; they don't need building permits for less than 150 square feet. This design by Jonas Wagell is available for purchase for 12,200 euros plus freight, with a solar power module for only 1,400 euros. A bath and kitchen module is also available....
With only 570 square feet to play with, Oscar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Ruf devote a good portion of the System3 house at the Home Delivery exhibition to this lovely stair, with hundreds of mini-portholes lighting the way. ...
The show starts on the sidewalk: Visiting Home Delivery at the at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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