Learn How to Connect with Nature from This Off-the-Grid Prefab A prefabricated off-the-grid vacation home in eastern Washington is one with the land.
7 Prefabs Set in Nature One of the benefits of prefabricated and modular buildings is that they leave minimal construction waste and can be built without...
14 Totally Off-the-Grid Cabins Operating entirely off the grid, these homes match renewable energy sources with modern
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How to Build an Off-the-Grid Cabin Suzanne Shelton’s life work is making sustainable lifestyles attractive and accessible.
Not Ready For a Prefab House? How About a Prefab Kitchen. Kitchen systems are a lot like prefab housing: they're designed to be modular but they're endlessly customizable—not that that's...
Top 5 Homes of the Week That Connect With Mother Nature Everyday, we select our favorite home by featuring it as the Dwell Home of the Day.
This Off-Grid Container Home in Australia Disappears in Nature Nestled in a tiny town off the coast, this container home echoes the main ingredient the owners had hoped for in a weekend...
Mingle With Mother Nature in This Tiny Prefab Getaway Tucked into an old-growth forest, this prefab home was assembled in just three days with minimal site impact.
Nature Nurtured On the shores of New Zealand’s Lake Wakatipu, architects Bronwen Kerr and Pete Ritchie designed a relaxed family home that...
Off-the-Grid Island House in New Zealand Connects with the Outdoors A remote beachside cottage evokes the spirit of camping trips.
Knotty by Nature In snowy Sweden, where pine planks and the democratic design incubator Ikea reign supreme, a local architect pays homage to his...
The Nature of Nuance The Mellin family blurs the lines between work and play in a highly conceptualized home and office remodel that celebrates...
Prefab Units Cluster Together in This Off-the-Grid Guesthouse Sustainable features keep this prefabricated building, designed by MOS Architects, cool and energy-efficient despite its New...
Watch How This Danish-Style Farmhouse Unites a Family With Nature A Michigan family of six builds their Scandinavian-inspired dream home, complete with large spaces to match their playful...
This Off-Grid Prefab Is All About Location, Location, Location The sleek design from Stockholm-based iOhouse doesn’t rely on utility hookups, allowing you to live in luxury wherever you want.
How This Australian Beach House Connects to the Coast Is on a Whole Other Level On the outskirts of Sydney, Bundeena Beach House’s green roof and sculptural skylight are just the tip of the iceberg when it...
This Off-Grid Prefab Cabin Boasts a Hidden Hot Tub Dramatically wrapped in dark spruce panels, this self-sustaining tiny home in North Slovakia is the ultimate escape.
Here’s What We Can Learn From Japanese Prefab Homes Thanks to cutting-edge design, mass production, and customization, prefabricated housing is common practice in Japan.
These Luxe New Prefab Homes Are Designed for Off-Grid Living Tiny living meets luxury in these Bauhaus-inspired shipping container homes.
6 Off-Grid Prefab Homes For Self-Sufficient Living Whether you’re looking to lower your carbon footprint, retreat into nature, or simply reduce your utility bills, get inspiration...
10 Nature-Forward Hotels That Take Advantage of Prefab Construction Getting up close and personal with nature is easier than ever thanks to low-impact prefab construction.
An Off-the-Grid Prefab in Australia Uses Salvaged Iron as Camo Disguised as a humble farm shed, the prefabricated Tintaldra Cabin is a cool, contemporary home that goes completely off the grid...
Go Off-Grid in Russia With This Bright Red Prefab Cabin Airlifted into place via a helicopter, this energy-efficient alpine shelter adds a vibrant pop of color to a snow-covered...
Go Stargazing in This Off-Grid Glass Prefab Nestled in the Desert An idyllic glass house that's perfect for stargazing offers a surprisingly comfortable immersion in one of Europe’s most extreme...
23 Unconventional Homes Built Around Trees From Kyoto, Japan, to Austin, Texas, these dwellings take “bringing the outside in” to the next level.
How to Build an Off-the-Grid Cabin in Arkansas for just over $118,000 Stocked with green features, an inexpensive off-the-grid retreat in Arkansas provides its owner peace of mind through its...
This Floating, Off-Grid Prefab Can Be Assembled in Just Two Days Ready for life on land or water, the net-zero LilliHaus is a plug-and-play prefab by SysHaus.
An Off-Grid Prefab Home Slides Wide Open to the Australian Bush The self-sufficient Courtyard House embraces the bush landscape in all directions.
This Tiny, Off-Grid Prefab Home Grows Its Own Food Gray Organschi Architecture and the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture team up to create the Ecological Living Module, a...
How Prefab Is Helping Fire Victims Rebuild After Disaster In the wake of wildfires, prefab home builders have stepped up to provide speedy rebuilds at reduced costs to help fire victims...
An Off-the-Grid Prefab that Combines Open Plan Living With Rugged Durability In Tasmania, an eco-conscious architect builds a vacation home that can stand up to an untamed island.
Two Families Embrace Off-Grid Living in This Sustainable Prefab Home Two families live large and comfortably in this beautiful, self-sufficient prefab in rural Australia.
A Vancouver House Connects a Family Generations come together in a pair of homes on a single property in Vancouver.
Prefab, Proven In January 2003, we issued a challenge to 16 architects: Design a modern prefab home for $200,000.
Two Wood-Clad Prefab Holiday Homes Connect to the Landscape of Rural Uruguay Designed to welcome the outdoors in, two modular and minimalist houses provide a blissful escape in the Uruguayan countryside.
Prefab for Humanity In inner-city Baltimore, Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake paves a path to affordable prefab.