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weeHouse x4

Jan 4th 2009
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weeHousevia startribune.com

startribune.com: Architect Geoffrey Warner hopes to make factory-built housing more popular by focusing on sustainability and smart design with his modular weeHouses. That concept has evolved from a one-room cabin to this three-level house in south Minneapolis.

The weeHouse concept started with a one-room cabin built in 2003 near Wisconsin’s Lake Pepin. The Feldman/ Lutz house is far bigger — Werner calls it a “not-so-weeHouse” because it includes four shoebox-like modules and encompasses almost 3,000 square feet.

Not affordable at all
Cost: $350,000 including modular pieces, design, site construction and finish work (the developer, Brian Oeschger, saved money by acting as his own general contractor). The house sold for about $700,000, according to Hennepin County property tax records.