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The two first-floor bedrooms feature cork flooring and original built-in furniture.

Here, the cleverly planned living area may look small, but can sleep as many as four guests on two sleep sofas and a double Murphy bed on the other side of the partition.

Located in Hobart, Tasmania, Taroona House is a 2,600-square-foot residence built using a timber prefab building system developed by architecture firm Archier.

The Tini XS model is intended to bring clients closer to nature.

Floor-to-ceiling glazing and a linear skylight help welcome the landscape within the cabin’s small footprint.

This studio features wraparound, floor-to-ceiling windows to let in natural light.

Stays at Kabn start at around $300 per night. This price increases slightly in the Spring and Summer, as well as with add-ons like catering by chefs available on select dates.

An expansive picture window frames views of the natural landscape in the bedroom area, where the headboard doubles as a bar for the dining space.

Designed by the prominent midcentury architecture firm Muhlenberg Brothers in the late 1950s, a house outside Reading, Pennsylvania, proved irresistible for Philadelphians Paul Savidge and Dan Macey.

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The designers found OSB without traditional stampings of construction-grade OSB and clad the interior with it for an organic but utilitarian texture. “ I didn’t want anything in the space to be fake,” says Castillero. “I didn’t want it to pretend to be anything it wasn’t.”

Construction

Architects Gordon Stott and Jared Levy saw modular prefabrication as a chance to make high-quality residences more affordable—so long as the construction method was extremely efficient. In 2012, they launched Connect Homes with fifteen designs as part of its original Design Series. Since, Stott and Levy have made more affordable models as well as shelters and community buildings for unhoused people.