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An exploded axonometric of the basic components of the home explains how it is put together, from concrete foundations that raise it up off the ground all the way to the roof structure and its thermo-insulated panels with skylight perforations and solar panels.

Installation is installed in the main living space, which required a $1450 investment.

“I consider light to actually be one of the materials here,” says Losada-Amor. Skylights (including one in the shower) offer ventilation as well as light.

The 34-foot-long Airstream Excella was gutted and renovated by Innovative Spaces in Santa Barbara, California.

Architect Chris Pardo designed the Element 1 model for prefab builder Method Homes, cladding it in Cor-Ten steel and cedar. Pardo’s design “is the definition of simple, elegant, straightforward building,” resident Karen Kiest says.

Asking £880K, this RIBA award–winning eco home sits perched above the Galloway Hills.

An aerial view of the site shows the cabin, the river, and the surrounding araucaría trees.

MuuwSpace, a prefabricated hexagonal cabin wrapped in glass, metal, and wood, measures almost 100 square feet and features a starting price of $32K.

The two-bedroom ADU features built-ins in every room

Located on New Zealand’s North Island along the Coromandel Peninsula, this timber-clad shipping container house by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects captures the simplicity of living with nature. An open-plan layout extends the interior toward the surrounding landscape and ocean, while a built-in mechanism reveals a drop-down deck on one side of the unique holiday home.

The simplicity of the structure, in form and materiality, amplifies the dramatic mountain views and feelings of solitude. "We called it the hermitage because it’s a getaway,

The Model M prefab by Freedomky.