Pole houses are sustainable, expandable and adaptable homes, offering both a very strong structure (hurricane and flood resistant) as well as spatial balance and harmony. With no terrain-altering site work, excavations or retaining walls, pole houses are affordable to build as well as environmentally sensitive. Continue reading →

While I was looking around for modular and prefab building manufactures, I came upon Shelter-Kit; they offer pre-cut, customized prefab cabins, homes and cottages as well as prefab barns and garage kits, designed specifically for a ‘do-it-yourself’ assembly. Continue reading →

The e-BODE is a stylish Australian prefab home. It consists of prefabricated steel framed, modular units that are constructed in a factory only to arrive at your site on a flat-bed truck, ready to be positioned on the foundations. Continue reading →

From the Swedish group who brought us the prefab Barn House, here’s another cool prefabricated home from the Pinc House Collection. This wooden prefab structure is called Sport and it’s a modern version of the classic sports cabin, offering a spacious open-plan interior and panoramic windows. Continue reading →

The Black Barn, from the Pinc House Prefab House Collection, is a stylish adaptation of the old Viking Long House. This beautiful yet simple structure comes in black calcimine with a tarred wooden roof and visible beams. Continue reading →

The iT house, by Los Angeles architecture firm, Taalman Koch, has been designed as a minimal prefab home with a maximized experience; its small footprint upon the surrounding landscape and its indoor-outdoor living practices make it a beautiful piece of architecture. Continue reading →

If you’re thinking of relocation, why not take your house with you? The new prefab concept by Canadian Habitaflex is a folding, transportable home. By using its unique opening mechanism it can be easily unfolded, transported and relocated with a rapid and easy installation of only a few hours. Continue reading →

The M-house (pronounced ‘mouse’) is a portable, prefab home, studio or office with over 1000 sq ft of contemporary space and 8ft ceiling height. This prefabricated structure is highly insulated; it comes with an under floor heating throughout and high acoustic insulation; the windows are from Scandinavia and the roof is a maintenance-free standing seam system which will cope with the most extreme site conditions. Continue reading →

A great example for temporary architecture is the M-hotel by architect Tim Pyne. Located in London’s trendy Hoxton, this 36-unit, prefab hotel is designed to be rented by corporates for periods of up to 3 months, where executives could stay in a more homely, comfortable environment than any other average hotel. Continue reading →

Check out the concept behind the prefab Pod House by Prebuilt – an Australian architecture company specializing in prefabricated houses and holiday homes. Continue reading →