mkLotus at West Coast Green

- Via Inhabitat

" Michelle Kauffman, prefab designer extraordinaire, is at it again. Her newest mkLotus design, a modular prefab home with a long list of green features, will debut at this September’s West Coast Green conference in San Francisco with a full-sized showhouse for visitors to ooh-and-aah at to their hearts’ content.

The mkLotus features a green roof, LED lighting, green building materials, and the same indoor/outdoor living integration featured in her Glidehouse and Sunset Breezehouse..."
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Espace Mobile - Austria

- Via Inhabitat

" Salzburg-based Espace Mobile has recently debuted their very eye-catching, very affordable prefabricated line of customizable homes, ranging from €55,000 to €95,000. The concept behind Espace is the individual “at home” in a natural environment, designed for modular customization with the best materials for long lifetimes and flexibility...."

"..The Espace home is as customizable as your next automobile purchase, allowing you to pick and choose from a variety of features- everything from size and configuration to roofing, balcony, and interior material options. The structure is also optimized for energy conservation and heat retention (and comes with a 3-year warranty!). Sizes are a standard 4 meters wide, ranging from 7 to 15 meters long. Now if only we owned an acre or two in the uber-green Austrian countryside! "
Espace Mobile
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quon modular by andrew maynard

- via materialicio

Quon Modular by Andrew Maynard Architects in Australia...
"...Prefab may not take long to build once on site, but it takes a lot of time, money and perseverance to get a concept into the market and then into production. We first looked at Andrew Maynard's prefabs a while back, and now learn that his prefab company, Quon Modular, is in production and manufacturing. His site says "We are about to begin manufacturing our first housing modules for the Borogrove house and we have numerous other exciting projects underway." (source: Treehugger)

Modular Transitional Growth

- Via Inhabitat

Philippe Barriere Design Collective’s Modular Transitional Growth Housing (MTGH) system proves once again that prefab is not only earth-friendly, but a highly-adaptable, scalable, and efficient form of building. The project, conceptualized for a post-Katrina New Orleans housing competition, and runner-up in last year’s Metropolis Next Generation competition, delivers a system to provide everything from minimum emergency shelter units to large-scale town house residences. Designed for mass production, affordability, and easy transport, these compact housing units also boast a self-recycling process that reuses existing parts for future applications and BioClimactic design for natural light and passive cooling.

From Philippe Barriere Design Collective’s website:
“MTGH allows for expansions through its occupants housing needs, and recycles itself through the process of housing evolution. The unique self-recycling feature entails reusing existing parts, a process of organic shading, as MTG evolves towards a more mature expression and a more complete appropriation and identification of of housing which is tailored to the individual’s life need and span, in tandem with their socioeconomic resources. Beyond the use of recycled materials, the BioClimactic Design (high ceilings and naturally induced cooling ventilation) addresses priorities in vernacular architecture making MTG housing with a character of nobility and environmental assimilation.”