Students (graduate and undergraduate) at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture has completed an example of simple, elegant, and sustainable living in the desert. The Taliesin Mod.FabTM was built with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson and Jennifer Siegal, project manager Christian Butler, recent M.Arch graduate, and assistant project manager Nick Mancusi, current [...]
TYIN Tegnestue is a non-profit group of student architects which recently designed unusual wood prefab houses in Noh Bo, Tak, Thailand. The house which called Soe Ker Tie Hias means “the Butterfly Houses”, are named for their innovative flip-up roof design that enables effective natural ventilation while collecting rainwater for re-use.
California-based design studio Michelle Kaufmann Design has completed a redesigned three-storey prefab house which is built on the grounds of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago building. The sustainable building project is named as mkSolaire, part of 40 prefab houses project which she completed in the last five years.
Melbourne firm Bellemo & Cat has developed a unique urban-dwelling design located on Northcote, Victoria. The goal of the project was to delivered an inner city house with compact architecture design.
Limited areas and high priced real estates makes people think harder to compromise for an affordable dwelling place. The ConHouse small house design from Trebnje, Slovenia is one of many examples that minimum spaces can be developed into sophisticated living space.