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The couple share their unit with their dog, Renly. Like the other standalone homes, it has vaulted ceilings and glass front doors to maximize natural light and includes a semiprivate patio.

Madison points out that the pod concept would make it easy to add an extension if necessary. “We see it as a house that can grow with us—and that we can pay for as we go along.”

The Cabin is used by a couple with a young child, who spend their weekends here while a larger country home is under construction.

Completed in 2018 on a 2.6-acre site in the San Juan Islands, the two-bedroom modular home was installed in a day.

Located in Ojochal, Costa Rica, at the edge of a large tropical rain forest, the multi-disciplinary firm of A-01 (A Company / A Foundation) designed a prefabricated home that would respond to its local environment by exclusively using passive climate control.

Casa Bri Bri.

Nature, midcentury design, and a less-is-more mentality informed the Fishwick family’s private residence in Suffolk Park.

“We pulled apart one volume and staggered it along the buildable area of the property,” says architect Matthew Ahlberg of Portland firm Barrett Made. The home is clad in unfinished cedar, meant to weather over time.

An award-winning, modern masterpiece inspired by Neutra

The team preserved the deck, but installed a new railing.

Architect Kirsten Schwalgien converts the former stable of a famed Catalan modernist building into a contemporary loft.

Assembled in just two weeks, this cedar-wrapped passive house near Woodstock, New York, designed by BriggsKnowles A+D, realized a couple's dream of rural living.

New wood cladding, dyed black, was fit to the house's original frame.