Exterior, Metal Siding Material, Concrete Siding Material, and Prefab Building Type Twenty-two 12-foot-wide steel-frame modules were combined to form nine to 14-foot-high rooms that were stacked and bolted together. Ten deck modules added more than 4,700 square feet of sheltered outdoor space.  Photo 3 of 10 in 10 Steel Prefabs That Are Both Modern and Practical from A Picturesque Desert Prefab

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The modular two-story steel-and-glass structure sits atop a windy ridge on the city’s western edge, near Red Rock Canyon. Its prefabricated components—steel-frame modules that were prepared with finished floors, walls, doors, and fenestration, or were designed as canopied or trellised decks—were all made in Marmol Radziner’s home-building factory, near Los Angeles, and trucked over to the one-and-a-half-acre site.