Apartment Therapy: prefab & modular

FEMA-style Trailer Re-purposed into Solar Shelter

Revitalizing my dream of greening an Airstream, this re-purposed trailer has it all when it comes to being "green", and is on exhibit at Prospect .1 New Orleans....

The itHouse Prefab by Taalman Koch Architecture

Taalman Koch Architects recently completed work on their glass iT House, a lovely, minimal home that aims for simplicity, elegance, sustainable design and green principals in a new living site called ...

5 Incredible (and Colorful) Container Houses

We're endlessly interested in container houses. They're green and almost always fascinating pieces of architecture. This "house" in particular, the Container City in London, really knocked us over. A...

Michelle Kaufmann Announces mkHearth

There aren't a lot of celebrities in the green building world -- Michelle Kaufmann is about as close as it gets. So when she announces a new prefab design, we pay attention. This is the mkHearth....

Michelle Kaufmann: Smart Home in 90 Seconds

Two things green building enthusiasts always talk about when it comes to modular homes is how little waste is created during construction and, often, how quickly the homes go up once they're delivered...

Knocking Down Prefab

Spotted over at Jetson Green: a point-by-point rebuttal of the ideal that prefab housing is cheaper, less wasteful, faster to build, and more green that conventionally built houses. And this isn't so...

Prefab Modernism by Werner Sobek

German architect/engineer Werner Sobek's R128 and H16 homes are prefab with a twist. These structures aren't available through a manufacturer; they're custom homes designed using lightweight, modula...

HOM

OK, maybe it's just the Cor-ten siding, but we're really liking this greener take on the typical mobile home. Here are the green features:...

E-House by Envision Prefab

If we wanted to, we could probably post images of new green prefab here all day, every day. OK. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but there's a lot of great green prefab around these days. How...

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

We've covered American's preoccupation with square footage before, but this blog post over at the Oregonian about Dee Williams' $6 monthly bill for heating led us to the website of the Tumbleweed Tiny...

Rocio Romero LV Prefab Home in Napa, California

This is pretty. Pretty big (3,000 sq-ft) and pretty stunning. It's also prefab, which is often considered to be synonymous with green....

Casulo: Modular Room in a Box

Designed by Marcel Krings and Sebastian Muhlhauser, Casulo is an entire room of furnishings in a single 31" by 47" box. Without using any tools, the contents of the box transform to create a wardrob...

Container House by Leger Wanaselja Architecture

Cool, modern house, right? It's not just that. It's made from shipping containers, and is "infilling an empty lot overlooking a regional park in the eastern hills above San Francisco Bay."...

Casulo: Modular Room in a Box

Designed by Marcel Krings and Sebastian Muhlhauser, Casulo is an entire room of furnishings in a single 31" by 47" box. Without using any tools, the contents of the box transform to create a wardrob...

ASAP House: Affordable Modern Green Home
NYT 1.27.08

Architect Laszlo Kiss (what a great name!) is preparing to move his family into a modular, energy-efficient home in Sag Harbor that features a geothermal heating system and solar panels. As reported...