architecture 4 us

In 1933, as a part of Norris Dam construction project, the Tennessee Valley Authority built a community in Norris, Tennessee. By this, a series of houses were built too, with special design as models for modern and efficient living. Now, after 75 years, a Norris House is relaunched by  an interdisciplinary team of University of Tennessee students, of course with new design to adjust and update the house with 21th century condition, but without leaving the basic principle of its sustainable design and eco friendly construction. This new Norris House was designed and built by prefab technology, completed with several sustainable features.  The prefab house was made for a professor and a graduate student from the University of Tennessee. They will live there, and inform their experiences in a blog

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A sustainable prefab home was designed and built by Medicine Hat Inc in southwestern Montana’s Ruby Valley. It is called Ruby Springs Prefab House. It has modern design, and was built to deal with the natural resources and dramatic view in the location.

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Another prefab product was made by Blu Homes, a company specialized on producing sustainable prefab home. The prefab house, called Lofthouse, was designed on two version,  the traditional and modern design, completed with several sustainable features. Again, affordability and sustainability become very important.

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A sustainable prefab house called Week’nder was designed by Lazor Office. It was installed on Madeline Island, across Lake Superior. Some sustainable features and eco friendly building materials are used in this design to achieve maximum sustainability and to provide a good mixture with the environment surrounded.

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A team from Ghent University, Belgium has finished their design of a DIY eco friendly building for Solar Decathlon’s September competition. This is a sustainable design of E-Cube prefab house that can be built by the users theirselves, with several sustainable features and energy efficient features.

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A beautiful, elegant, versatile eco house building was designed by a collaboration of Germany architects, Patrick Frey and Björn Götte. It is a prefab house, with beautiful wooden structure. The house is used for a vacation house, or even a studio. This house is called Sommerhaus Piu (Piu Summer House).

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A sustainable prefab house was design by O2 Architecture, a green architectural firm from Palm Springs, California. The house is a project of Blue Sky Homes, a Palm Springs-based prefab builder,  located in Yucca Valley outside of Palm Springs, and will be used as an desert escape destination on winter. This is a  galvanized steel home with some sustainable building materials involved.

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This is a green modular prefab house, produced by Conquest Manufacturing Ltd., used as cottage on a serene hillside site in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. The location has very beautiful view of the mountain and the historic Frank Slide.

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A modern and sustainable design of modular prefab can be found in v100 Mod Box. With a white color, this modular prefab can describe a modern and dynamic living environment.

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A sustainable modular prefab house was designed by Rolf Disch Solar Architecture in colaboration with WeberHaus.  It is called Ovolution, referred to the terms of evolution and ecology. This house won the 1997 European Solar Prize.

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