Prefab Outer Walls - EcoSip the Future of Construction? (GALLERY)

EcoSip is aiming to revamp the green building industry with their prefab outer walls. The plywood comes from sustainably farmed, fast-growing trees.

The wood is laminated, the panels are filled with foam, then the light-weight boards are hauled to the construction site. These advancements contribute to a dramatically reduced subcontractor cost and building time is dramatically reduced. In fact, the company claims the entire outer shell of a house can be constructed in a single day.

For a little more on the prefab movement, check these out:

Prefab Housing Boom - Pre Fab Gets Hip

Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic. Custom-designed modernist architecture is beyond the financial reach of many people and so prefab is viewed as a design and producti… [More]

Living Homes- Modernist Sustainable Prefab

Neato! I like it.
“A new prefab development company, “Living Homes” is being launched shortly- a prototype is being built now in Santa Monica. Designed by Ray Kappe, the house has many features that any treehugger would love- green roof, FSC certifed lumber, radiant floors, solar power. And, unlike … [More]

The Dwell Home Pre Fab House

This is absolutely awesome. From the Dwell Home website: Dwell Home Response to: What happens if you ask a manufactured home builder for an architect: Well, for lots of reasons involving everything from labor unions to mortgage financing, but certainly not from a lack of interest on the part of a… [More]

Sunset Breezehouse PreFab Home: I Wish I Lived in Your Trailer Park

I am suddenly feeling less arrogant about living in a pre fab home.
From the Sunset Website: The huge success of the prefab Glidehouse at Sunset Magazine’s Celebration Weekend last May—boosting attendance to more than 24,000 over two days—has prompted Sunset to plan a sequel. For 2005, we’re… [More]

No-Frills Eco-Chic Hotel to Open in Montreal

Cheap chic and eco travel collide in ALT Hotels, the new hotel brand from Montreal’s Germain hotel group.  The rooms are being prefabricated offsite, an innovation first. The hotel has geothermal heating and cooling, heat recovery from exhaust air, heat recovery from laundry water, energy efficient … [More]

One Room Everland Hotel (Follow Up) - Now Rooftop in Paris (GALLERY)

This is one of the coolest & certainly most exclusive hotel rooms in the world. The £313 one-room designer prefab room only contains a mini bar and double bed, and stays are limited to a single night. It does however boasts views of the city of lights from a Parisian roof top. Confused - well this… [More]

Studio 804 - Home of the Year 2006 (GALLERY)

The 2006 ‘Home of the Year’ as featured in the Architecture magazine has awarded to 20 University of Kansas students for the second time in three years. The awesome and innovative house is delicately perched a hilltop in the Strawberry Hill area of Kansas City. The students ply their creative fl… [More]

Hip Modular Housing - Container City (GALLERY)

Urban Space Management uses old shipping containers - bolted together in different configurations to provide an environmentally-friendly and affordable alternative to traditional buildings. Container City, as they call their service, has been used in residential and commercial projects. The construc… [More]

Houses made from Shipping Containers (GALLERY)

Live the life of box-car Willie - but now without those frustrating train noises. A number of companies have started creating low-income housing out of recycled shipping containers. The houses can be created quickly in a number of configurations in sizes ranging from 600 to 3000 square feet. One of … [More]