via: Modern Living
Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.
Plus House
Claesson Koivisto Rune: Plus House is a pre-fab two-story house with the generic proportions of a traditional Swedish barn house. Instead of windows positioned like regular “holes” along the walls, entire sides are glazed. Seen in plan, these two lines of vision straight through the building are perpendicular like a plus sign.
This house was designed for pre-fab manufacturer Arkitekthus.
iT House
via iT house blog
Designed by Linda Taalman and Alan Koch. The iT house sits on 5 acres of high desert hillside, so remote that it has to function off-grid with green technologies.
zeroHouse
via zeroHouse
zeroHouse generates its own electrical power. High-efficiency solar panels produce power and store it in an onboard bank of batteries. Fully charged, zeroHouse can operate continuously for up to one week with no sunslight at all.
zeroHouse collects its own water. A rainwater collection plane gathers and divers water into an elevated 2700 gallon cistern. All plumbing fixtures are gravity-fed. eliminating the need for power-consuming pumps.
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Earthships
via building the new world
Wikipedia: Earthships are earth-sheltered autonomous buildings made of tires rammed with earth, which are usually arranged in “U” or horseshoe shaped modules. Each tire is rammed full of earth manually using a sledge hammer. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the “U” shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities.
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The Roundhouse
via Roundhouse
Forbes: Eli Attia’s creation is what he calls the Roundhouse, a modular window-wrapped structure that’s supposed to make up for the bad name prefab housing has gotten over the years. “Enough of this nonsense of building homes the way we did 100 years ago,” Attia says, disgustedly motioning at the bloated homes in the canyon below the Roundhouse site. “It’s all a waste.”
A Roundhouse, they calculate, delivers 150% more square feet of floor space per unit of exterior wall than a traditional home does. Yikes, how is that possible? Take a basic 40-foot-by-25-foot layout in a boxy 2,000-square-foot two-story home. Going from a rectangular to a circular floor while keeping the perimeter fixed adds only 34% to the space. Their comparison, it turns out, was based on a nearby Mediterranean-style home with many nooks and crannies that a simple rectangle doesn’t have.
Burst*003
via Art Daily
Architecture Australia: The prototype house is achieved most elegantly here using pieces of laser-cut plywood brought to site on a single flat-bed truck. What is groundbreaking is that the aspiration for prototyping has been coupled with a formal complexity and potential for customization supported by new computer-supported design and manufacturing tools. The duo has been working for a decade now on the potentials for interlocking structures of smaller planar parts. Communicating the fabrication and assembly of 1,100 non-identical pieces required atypical forms of documentation, and with that, an original approach to thinking through how to design and realize that design.
Huf Haus
via Huf Haus
Huf Haus: The distinctive feature of a HUF Home is its post and beam architecture. This timber frame concept frees the designer of the constraints of load-bearing (and thus dividing) walls. It gives HUF designs their unrivalled breadth, openings and vast spaces. Wall to ceiling glazing opens the view on the surrounding nature, making it part of the living experience.
Marmol Radziner Prefab
A prefab in Utah by Marmol Radziner. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2500 interior s.f., and 1720 deck s.f. with 15 modules. Marmol Radziner Prefab: combines the efficiency of factory-built homes with the benefits of custom residential design. Our green homes are not a kit of parts – we build the prefab modules in our own factory and ship them complete with your choice of pre-installed interior and exterior finishes, flooring, appliances, and more. We can oversee the entire process, from design to delivery and installation, so no additional contractor is required.
Hood River home
via New York Times
The two-bedroom rectangular house is located on a rural road about a mile from the Mount Hood Winery and Nutquacker Farms, surrounded by firs, big leaf maples and reseeded wildflowers. It sits 10 feet off the ground on a noticeably large and solid concrete box, which contains two storage units. The elevation is a concession to flood-plain code, which prohibits “habitable” floors less than four feet off the ground. “But also, on this really beautiful site, we wanted to design something that didn’t overwhelm it — something that was small, floating,” Ms. Donohue said.
