Collection by Kelsey Keith
New Prefab Homes from Dwell's December/January Issue
Each year, Dwell's annual prefab issue is a bestseller—and with constantly improving prefab processes and materials, we chronicling more innovative modular designers than ever before. Here is a look at some highlights for 2015.
A narrow building next to the main structure houses storage and an outdoor kitchen.
The fireplace that Lake|Flato designed for the deck is the compound’s focal point. “People can go tuck their small kids into bed and then creep back to the fire pit area and be gregarious late into the night,” Wallace says.
Continuing a prefab legacy explored by his famous architect grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, a Wisconsin resident opted for a Blu Homes prefab for his home in the state's hilly Driftless Area.
A prefab pool- and guesthouse designed by LABhaus frames views of a Massachusetts property’s original structure, a Dillman model Sears, Roebuck kit house from 1928.
The modular construction is visible in the exterior, where individual units jut out to create a stepped facade that celebrates the construction process while still relating to the scale and texture of the surrounding architecture.
Cubicco’s prefab houses, like the Cabana Beach model, are built with laminated veneer lumber, an engineered material that uses up to 90 percent of a tree—compared to typical wood timbers that use only 60 to 70 percent. Modules can be disassembled if the owners relocate.
Mario Plasencia, the architect, used wood to wrap the exterior stairwell.