Architecture

Designed by Danish architect Lars Frank Nielsen and built Add a Room , The mini House plus one prefab has a 15 sqm footprint. They can be connected together Lego like for expandability. Their show house is approximately $58000 and includes an extra outdoor room and a bathroom and kitchenette and storage in the...
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“Jean Prouve was a metal worker and designer that acquired notoriety for his collaboration with his famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier). This weeks video presented by Wallpaper Magazine does a great job showing Jean Prouve’s early exploration into PreFab with the Ferembal House. The building was originally designed...
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The interior and exterior shots above are from the Osprey model. Ecco-Cottages are modular eco-friendly “second homes” line from Nationwide Homes with a wide variety of models and designs. There is not a lot of info on how they are eco-friendly exactly on the site but they do have a contact us page and...
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Anderson Anderson Architect’s prototype prefabricated Cantilever House is an exploration of new modular housing construction techniques and t materials to deliver prefab dwellings more cost effectively. “The building system is a marriage of two common, standardized, mass-produced building elements – a prefabricated steel structural frame (of the type commonly manufactured for light-weight commercial structures),...
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From their website: “The Villa can be shipped to almost any location in the world within months, and will be assembled on location by a team of experts within weeks. Description and Specs” A trio of interlocking architectural bands envelop the Villa in striking angles, creating a dramatic, asymmetrical interior of spiraling, two-story peaks...
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Studio Aisslinger’s LoftCube modular house followup is FinCube modular. The space has a 360 degree glass frontage with wood slats outer enclosure for privacy , a roof that can be solar-powered or greened as well as “modular and double-sided usable wall and function panels enable an individual room layout”…. <FinCube website>
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A video demonstrating the 7 days it takes to build a Huf Haus by an elderly couple. The video is from  the British program Grand Design which chronicles the  realized architecture of self builders. Also, the Huf Haus is now available in the USA. The Huf Haus’s English web site is <here> and the...
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“Hearst Castle is a palatial estate on the central California coast and a National Historic Landmark. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan for William Randolph Hearst—a newspaper magnate from 1919 until 1947. In 1957, the Hearst Corporation donated the property to the state of California. Since that time it has been maintained as...
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“You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it’s actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren’t more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master’s thesis at ArtEZ in Arnhem, The Netherlands, Pauline Van Dongen created a line of high heels, dubbed Metamorphosis.The...
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A Video follow-up from the Lumen Haus photo post.
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