NEAPO, a Finish architecture and construction firm that specialize its products on sustainable, safe and healthy residential buildings, created a unique and sustainable apartment building. This eco friendly building was designed mobile, can be moved easily to needed place. After construction phase, this sustainable building was moved to Turku, Finland, early of this month.
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Stillwater Dwellings is an architectural firm specialize in producing prefab, environmentally friendly homes. Their company are focused on how to make a good quality prefab housing with affordable price, and good sustainability. Their product’s trademark is the use of soaring butterfly roofline, instead of the sustainable features and predictable construction budget.
Form & Forest, cabin designer that usually designs a lot of great, modern cabin for weekend escape, etc, designed a beautiful flat-pack cabin, called The Pioneer. This prefab cabin has green construction. Flat-pack cabin is claimed to be the latter form of prefab construction that may provide easier way to be sent to remote area or have under developed access roads and driveways.
This sustainable work pod was designed by Thomas Biggs and Tony Carr. It was hoped to be an eco-friendly work place that can be placed everywhere.
