Arkitekthus is a company based in Stockholm, Sweden who build and sell contemporary prefab homes designed by a collection of Swedish architects. Their goal is to bring good design to a larger market that otherwise could not afford an architect designed home.

All the houses are sold at fixed prices and can be obtained in [...]

Often overshadowed in the prefab debate by their sexier cousin, the modular home, manufactured homes are not usually synonymous with sustainability or style. Until now, that is. Introducing HOM (pronounced ‘home’ and written with a fancy phonetic symbol), a new line of green manufactured homes, furniture, lighting and accessories for the consumer who cares about [...]

BSB Design developed the Ab?d house, a low-cost, high-quality prefab home for the South African market. This prefab house is constructed from arches connected by overlapping, corrugated panels on each side, fiberglass slates, plexiglas panels and rain channels.
The prefabricated Ab?d home provides new housing options for lowest-cost, low-income starter homes in areas that presently are [...]

This week’s prefab breaks out of the hard-lined modern box with a beautiful soft-shelled structure that finds elegance in its simplicity. That’s right - it’s a Nomad Yurt! SoCal based Ecoshack has updated the ancient shelter with a modern construction that is light, flexible, and composed entirely of eco-friendly materials. The airy shelter is perfect [...]

This small (one-bedroom, 725 square foot) sustainable pre-fab home may be diminutive in size, but certainly not in style. The team of Michelle Kaufmann Designs, XtremeHomes and Late Afternoon Garden Design succeeded in infusing this modern home with warmth and comfort. It’s difficult to imagine that MkLotus was built in just five weeks in an [...]

In 1996 Oscar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Ruf designed and built Su-Si, a small modern prefab; in 2002 Allison Arieff and Bryan Burkhart put it on the cover of their book Prefab and it became an icon, the poster boy for the modern prefab movement.
For the MoMA exhibition Home Delivery, they contribute SYSTEM3. Watch the [...]

This one is an interesting concept. A pre-fab house with a host of eco-credentials, that can be put together in a matter of days. The Perrinepod design is quite retro, oblong shaped with rounded edges. The idea behind the design is to counter our over-cluttered existence and create beautiful and useable living environment that can [...]

The Canuhome is a 20 by 50 ft. exhibit of an 850 sq. ft. prefab residence, including a kitchen and dining room, living room, bathroom and bedroom.This traveling exhibit brings together a diverse group of partners in order to stimulate more sustainable, universal and affordable prefab housing solutions for Canadians.

“It’s high time we all start [...]

It’s hot, dry, brown, and dusty—and for some, a personal paradise. Welcome to the California high desert, where a pair of Los Angeles-based architects, Linda Taalman and Alan Koch, have finished construction on their own 1,100-square-foot getaway.An experiment in hands-on minimalism, the house sits on a remote five-acre site in Pioneertown—just beyond the northwestern boundary [...]

Architect: Brasil ArquiteturaArchitects: Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz, Cícero Ferraz Cruz, Anne Dieterich, Bruno Levi, Gabriel Grinspum, Luciana Dornellas, Pedro Del GuerraLocation: Hanko, FinlandDesign Year: 2005Construction Year: 2007Finnish Architecture Team: Ville Niiranen and Mikko KääriäinenDigital Model: Carlos ArellanoConstructed Area: 330 sqm

For us it is impossible to imagine modern Brazilian architecture without thinking about the strong influence [...]