Prefab Desert Living
Oh yes, oh yes– a gorgeous one-bedroom, 600 sq. ft. prefabricated home with panelized construction, a product of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Called Taliesin Mod.Fab(TM), it incorporates water and energy saving features like greywater re-use, rainwater catchment, and solar paneling, should one want to completely unplug. The design makes an asset of the spare simplicity that often characterizes prefab structures, in my opinion.
Prefabricated House, New Orleans LA
Very cool design for a prefabricated house made of two 10×20x80 ft. twisted steel tubes, on a site in New Orleans, USA, that is 9 feet under sea level. Carbon fiber panels are used on the exterior.
At least the house itself should survive any future hurricanes that the Big Easy is unlucky enough to experience.
Oil Rigs as Prefabricated Eco-resorts in the Ocean
Sometimes ‘prefabricated structures‘ are more like recycled structures. We can, after all, create uses for things that have outlived their initial purpose, can’t we? Here’s a great use for oil rigs that are no longer producing:
luxury resorts.
I think I’d prefer warm water former drilling sites!
Prefabricated Greenhouses
Interesting article on greenhouses, partially in reference to prefabricated greenhouses:
A greenhouse is something that might really enhance your enjoyment of gardening, but who wants to spend the money to build a standard (non-prefab) structure? Especially now when everyone is trying to save money. Anyway, who knows, if you do it cheaply enough and grow the right vegetables, you might make your money back on the construction costs.
Prefabricated Structures
A blog all about prefabricated structures and innovation and economy in architecture.