Container Homes ICGreen

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California-based ‘IC Green’ manufactures and pre-assembles homes, studios and cabanas from recycled shipping containers. Whether a small guest house or studio or an expansive residence, these prefab homes come with large glass openings, a well insulated envelope and a modular living green roof.

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Maison a²+e Extension

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With a tiny space of 56 sq. meters, this small prefab extension fits nicely with the existing home. Due to the unique configuration of the site (3.50W x 11.50L meters), the architects resorted to unconventional constructive methods and materials.

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Stargazing Cabins

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Designed by Louis and Nathalie Blanco, Carré d’étoiles are small, cube-shaped prefab cabins scattered across resorts in France where stargazing tourists can rent them as the perfect vacation getaway – an invitation to discover nights out in the open air.

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Prefab Maison i+r

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Designed by French architecture firm Atelier Alassoeur, this private residence is a wooden prefab house, raised above the ground on stilts with a compact floor space of 103 sq. meters.

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Prefab Home Luminhaus

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The Luminhaus, a Rocio Romero prefabricated home, is a modern mountain family retreat, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Amherst, Virginia.

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Small Prefab Studio

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Remember we told you about the ‘Little House on the Trailer’? Well, here’s another example of what you can do with their small, portable models. Designed as a gallery or art space, this small prefab measures 12′ X 20′ with a 10′ ceiling. It’s fully insulated with ready for hook up plumbing, recycled Douglas Fir flooring, and a porch for two – An ideal place for a studio to create and showcase your work.

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Keith Dewey Container Home

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Keith Dewey, the man behind Zigloo, constructed his own home out of eight used shipping containers stacked on a residential lot. See below what you can achieve with standard prefab containers combined with contemporary style and creativity.

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Prefab Flake House

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Located at a rural area of Nantes, France, the Flake House is an experimental, prefabricated building made of natural wood. The house features an irregular fracture where it is actually broken in the middle, with no apparent reason which is highly unusual or even madness, hence the name ‘Folie en Bois’.

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Prefab Drop House

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Paris-based Drop architects, created the Drop House Project, where a modern home and a comfortable living space can be achieved in the form of a prefabricated shipping container.

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Big Dig House

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From highway to housing, this steel and concrete home in Lexington, Massachusetts, has been built from salvaged elevated portions of the dismantled Boston’s Big Dig I-93 highway.

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Bells Beach Modular House

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Located on Australia’s Great Ocean Road, this prefab modular home features rusty red Cor-ten cladding, reflecting the red cliffs of the famous surfing Bells Beach, while requiring no maintenance in this harsh environment.

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Aireys Inlet Modular House

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This prefab, modular holiday home can be found in Aireys Inlet, nestled beside the Southern Ocean of Victoria on Australia’s world famous Great Ocean Road.

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Prefab Floating House

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Located on a remote island in Canada’s Lake Huron, this floating, two-story summer house dynamically adapts to the drastic water level changes by floating atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to gently sway along with the lake.

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Prefab Borogove House

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The Borogove House, designed by Melbourne-based architect Andrew Maynard, is based on the prefabricated, modular Quon model. It is a completely self sufficient, off the grid house, which can collect roof water, recycle gray water and generate power throughout the year via solar panels.

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