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“The feeling of being inside while connected to the environment was really important to us,” says Brooks. “And so the surrounding landscape had a really big impact on everything that we did with the house.”

The 4,200-square-foot home by Turkel Design balances top-quality natural materials and cutting-edge contemporary design with the ease of construction, expedited timeline, and cost benefits of prefab.

The exterior of the home is clad in Norway spruce. All of the windows are from Velfac, with the sliders from Schuco.

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To avoid excavating the land, Pang and Boyle designed a structural platform to keep the cabin level.

The family home that residents Tyler Lepore, Lisa Giroday, builders Hanson Land & Sea, and September Architecture devised in the Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, is wrapped with cedar and brick, tying to its wooded surround, which is only a four-minute walk to the ocean. "The house feels like it's part of the setting,

Bertoia side chairs and an Aplomb pendant by Foscarini complete the dining area.

The pilot home on Whidbey Island demonstrates the system’s potential: a 600-square-foot interior paired with nearly equal covered outdoor space, set lightly on a pin foundation that protects tree roots and cuts carbon by 77 percent. "Puzzle Prefab can be modified according to each site,

Seattle architecture firm Wittman Estes used its new modular prefab system to built a prototype on Whidbey Island in Washington for a family that loves the outdoors.

With an intentionally vertical layout, the house's floors open to each other to create spaces with double-height ceilings.

The interior incorporates low toxicity finishes and natural materials like timber and textural oriented strand board.