Mapping Prefab
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101 Prefab
Everything you wanted to know about prefab but were afraid to ask! We've tapped the brain behind popular web resource FabPreFab to explain the birds and bees of manufactured housing.
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Prefab Parlance
From Kynar and Galvalume to SIPs, the terminology associated with prefab construction can be daunting. We asked a handful of architects and designers to help us build a prefab glossary of the top…
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Prefab, Proven
In January 2003, we issued a challenge to 16 architects: Design a modern prefab home for $200,000. Here’s the story of the house that resulted from that challenge—and what we learned…
Products
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Recycled Road Map Corkboard
It's true, foldout road maps are on the way out. This holiday season, clean out your glove box and put those old maps to use. Recycled road map corkboards are a quick DIY gift idea for the beloved…
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Food Map Container
The Food Map Container may look like a bathtub but is the ideal planter. Its lightweight recycled-plastic basin features a contoured drainage system built into the bottom and it sits on a…
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UK Type Map
London gets the lion's-share font, but this screenprint representing burgs large and small across the UK will satisfy Anglophiles who adore old Blighty in all its glory, all the way from Helston to…
Videos
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Design Leader: Michelle Kaufmann
As part of our Design Leaders video series, prefab specialist Michelle Kaufmann shares her philosophy on sustainable modular construction.
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Contained
In a quest to create some private space in a soaring loft, two San Franciscans turned to shipping containers as a design solution. View the final transformation, which includes a teak-and-copper…
Tips
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Think Smaller. Think Efficient.
Don’t target a prefab project and forget to adapt your wish list to fit the capabilities of the task at hand. A prefabricated house or commercial project has certain limitations, one of which…
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Prefab is Not Necessarily Less Expensive
It certainly can be, but as with any project it depends on the architect, the fabricator, and how everything is organized in anticipation of installation at your site. Your architect needs to be…
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The More Complete, the More Prefab
There are quite a few companies out there that are marketing “prefab” but not all of them are designing and producing entirely finished products. Many projects we have seen appear to be…
Event
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Prefab Education Workshop
Join Ryan E. Smith, professor of architectural technology and author of Prefab Architecture, in the Prefab Education workshop on January 13th, 2012. Learn about the history of industrialized…
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Recycled Road Map Corkboard
It's true, foldout road maps are on the way…
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Food Map Container
The Food Map Container may look like a bathtub…
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UK Type Map
by Bold & NobleLondon gets the lion's-share font, but this…
My favorite. It has all the modern touches as well as the livable space I could adore. The trick is to find a lot that will not intrude the look of the house. Mose neighborhoods can't hack a great design like this one.
How wonderful, I don't know which one I like the best. I only wish I had the money to build something like these!
The map location indicating "Moose Lake, WIsconsin (sic)" is placed not "50 miles west of Milwaukee" as the article suggests, but almost 200 miles west in the great state of Minnesota on the I35 corridor. WI does not equal MN, my good people.
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