Of all the press I’ve been reading about a company called MEKA Modular Luxury Housing, the Wall Street Journal interview with MEKA’s Michael de Jong had the most arresting quote: “”It’s a product design, not a housing design.”

The concept behind MEK…

The flooding of Pakistan was yet another tragedy that added to this year’s surge of natural disasters, and with 21 million people injured or homeless, we still have an emergency on our hands. Richard Moreta, who you may recall from his efforts to bu…

If you lived in a students’ dorm, you know the hassle that comes with the lack of privacy, crowdedness, noise, sometimes the lack of cooking space and so on. Here is a project that manages to overcome some of these draw backs. Cité A Docks is a crea…

OceanSafe, a maker of Structural Steel Insulated Panels (SSIP), and The ReGen Group recently unveiled the winner of their New Orleans Sustainable Design Competition, which challenged architects to design emergency housing shelters using their panels. …

[Image: A future site for Austin + Mergold's House-In-A-Can].Architects Austin + Mergold have a proposal for how to reuse agricultural silos and other circular structures of the U.S. farm belt: it’s what they call A-House-In-A-Can.Pitched for a farm in…

Another sustainable prefab shed was designed by KitHAUS, called Kpod. It is suitable to be used as a studio, office, etc.

This 117 sq ft shed has a bolt-together aluminum structural. With several sustainable features, this shed becomes an eco-friendl…

A design/build project at the California Academy of Art turned out to be an award-winning affair for a group of five architecture students who built this beautiful prefabricated outdoor office. Located in San Anselmo, California, the P.A.A.V. (which s…

UK-based Dwelle has unveiled a brilliant set of prefabs that illustrate how small living is the new way to live big. With a tiny footprint (the bigger of the two is 253 sq. feet), understated modern design, and sustainable features like insulation mad…

© KontraframeArchitects: Henning Larsen Architects Location: Woodlands, Sweden Client: Jens Nielsen Groos Floor Area: 59 houses of 92 sqm, 119 sqm and 152 sqm Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Kontraframe© KontraframeIt is the vision to create an archi…

© Andre EisenlohrArchitect: Andre Eisenlohr Location: Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil Colaborator Architect: Cyssa Martins Consulting structural engineers: João Carlos R. Neto Contractor: Luciano Silva dos Santos Client: Rancho Santo Antonio Pr…