Split across five floors, you can ascend the property either via elevator or stairs.
Interior designer Markie Miller and her father Lance Price, a woodworker, teamed up to rehab the old trailer.
Top 10 Vans, Buses, and Trailers of 2020: From souped-up Airstreams to converted skoolies, these rambling homes enraptured our readers.
The van’s side hatch makes for the perfect food truck.
A look at the metal walkway leading up to the rental's main entrance.
The bathroom presents a playful splash of color into the space and includes a large rain shower.
The trailer comes with two sleeping areas, each positioned on opposite ends of the interior.
Measuring nearly 100 square feet, the trailer offers plenty of space for a short-term rental and includes a well-equipped kitchenette, sleeping area, and full bathroom.
The couple outfitted the bus with two sofas with built-in storage, a large kitchen area, and a wood-burning stove.
Nine shipping containers form the basis of this new multigenerational house near Denver.
La Aduana is an eight-unit apartment building in León, Mexico, made from 36 shipping containers.
Located on owner Lucas Steyn’s family farm in Botrivier, South Africa—about 90 minutes from Cape Town—Copia is an eco-retreat comprised of two shipping container cabins.
Builders, developers, designers, and architects have developed a range of homes that are composed of prefabricated, modular, or kit-of-parts pieces that can allow for lower costs, faster and easier on-site construction, and even higher quality spaces. Here, we delve into the differences—and similarities—among these manufactured residences.
"Radical sustainability
A prefab home is any home that has been built, partly or fully, in a factory. The design may be fully preset, partly modified by the client, or completely made-to-order.
The expansion is flanked on both sides by lush gardens. Here, the line between indoors and outdoors is blurred to the extreme... to the homeowners' delight.
becomes this wood cocoon with ambient light coming through the clear wall panel. You don’t need to even turn on a light.”
The house faces the east, so in the evening, sunsets can be enjoyed from the roof terrace but the view of the city below is visible from nearly every room in the house.
An 800-square-foot deck has a metal privacy screen on one end, and is wrapped in a streamlined metal railing designed by Boyer. “All of the exterior materials had to be fire resistant” to comply with code, says Boyer, so a bamboo product was used for the deck.
Amagansett Modular House by MB Architecture
When planning regulations limited what could be built in an English forest, PAD Studio devised a prefab structure that can be moved by crane. “The whole building is based around a steel frame, which provides us with the stability to be able to top-lift it easily,” explains designer Ricky Evans.
After an unprecedented year of earthquakes, hurricanes, and fires, a bright light has been shed on the benefits of building with concrete.
Many prefab architects and suppliers specialize in either modular or panelized construction. Minneapolis architect Charlie Lazor has worked with both mediums. This lake house in rural Ontario, Canada, is an example of one of his modular projects. It was built in a Wisconsin factory about 400 miles away.
The 1981 residence in Berkeley, California, is teeming with original details across its two floors.
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