If you’re into serious mountain climbing – listen up! There’s a new way to live in the mountains and it’s called LEAP (Living Ecological Alpine Pod) – a modular shelter that is entirely prefabricated and assembled off-site; it’s completely self-sufficient, and designed to resist the extreme stress of high alpine altitudes.
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This beautiful prefab cabin serves as Jens Risom’s getaway home. It’s nestled among Bayberry fields on Block Island, a popular summer tourist destination, located approx. 13 miles south of the coast of Rhode Island.
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This modern prefab cabin sits in a beautiful location on Washington’s Orcas Island, a short walk from Doe Bay Resort. It serves as a small getaway home for a couple and their two young children. The challenge was to design a modest cabin in size and cost (but not in character) that will capture the spirit of its surroundings while reflecting the Japanese and Chinese heritage of the owners. Quite a task…
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This unique, award-winning project consists of four tent-like cabins grouped around a central square deck. This cross-like, prefab structure features two sleeping huts, a wet hut serving as a washroom and a table hut – all sitting lightly upon the land.
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These prefabs, from Reclaimed Space, are all about modern sustainable living, while building with reclaimed materials. Spaces are constructed as a typical stick built home; all are fully insulated and come pre-wired and plumbed. As all prefabricated homes and cabins, they are transported to their site, fully complete, and set on concrete foundations.
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The Pavillon by Faberhaus is a new concept, currently presented at Montreal’s ‘The City and Suburb Home Show’. It’s a small prefabricated cabin, only 450 sq. ft. (terrace included), designed to live a self-sufficient life open to nature. It prides itself to have a small ecological footprint, with a minimal impact on the surrounding land and environment.
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This prefab cabin is an an off the grid house on a small coastal island near Charleston, South Carolina. The cabin’s prefabricated construction and sustainable technology conform to the area’s extreme coastal storms, rain, floods and wild fires, making it an ideal disaster housing solution.
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This basic prefab cabin is perfect for those who would like to experience solitude in the wilderness, whether for a few hours, overnight or for several days. The prefabricated structure opens up to the natural surroundings, providing protection while you enjoy the sky and landscape even when you’re lying down.
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Check out these beautiful small prefabs – a collection of micro-buildings that are sustainable, fast to erect and extremely versatile and adaptable. What started as ‘sheds for living’ later became dwelle.ings. which offer various prefabricated units from 7.5 to 24 sq. meters models, which could serve as home offices, garden studios, playrooms and guest accommodation or maybe even a home gym with sauna and hot tub.
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Following the Loftcube, German designer Werner Aisslinger brings us his new version for the mobile sustainable living unit; he calls it Fincube. The structure of this small prefab home resembles a wooden mushroom. It can be used as a guest house in your garden, a cabin in the woods, a home office, a conference room and more.
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This small prefab is tiny, only 15 sq. meters. It’s built of high quality solid Scandinavian material and can be delivered by truck to your site, ready to use. It can be used as a vacation home, guest room, office, studio, teenage accommodation or as an existing house extension.
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When I think of India, a modern prefab cabin is the last thing that comes to mind, so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered this small villa by Mumbai designer and architect, who also launched India’s first lifestyle store, Pinakin Patel. This wooden villa comes fully furnished and since all parts are prefabricated, your holiday home or extra living quarters can be completed in no time.
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This beautiful prefab wooden cabin was inspired by a love story. It sits on the bank of Kielder Water and Forest, Northumberland, UK. It’s actually a tiny decorative piece of art, providing a stopping place for visitors walking or cycling along the lakeside path, while its beautiful surroundings serve as a stage set or backdrop to the fictional love story between Freya and Robin.
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If this unique piece of architecture doesn’t stop you right there, then I don’t know what will. It’s actually a small 3 x 3m prefab retreat, hidden inside a copper clad tower, offering panoramic views to the horizon. Featuring a rusty cube-like design with basically simple amenities, this house is referenced as ‘Permanent Camping’.
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