Meet Paco, an all in one living unit from Japanese Schemata Architecture Office and Jo Nagasaka. It’s a 3m box cube that offers a compact yet sufficient living space despite its tiny size. What a unique and inspiring project for creative tiny home owners! Continue reading →

Upcher is a small home which can be adapted and retrofitted, expanded or reduced through prefabrication and smart design. Located in East Hampton, NY, this 1,400 sq. ft. home is a simplified and compact residence for a writer, built near her existing house on an adjacent property. Continue reading →

Set amongst grapevines and rock walls in the Swiss canton of Valais, this unique piece of modern architecture is a 185 sq. meters, single family prefab home. The house is an inclined gray slate clad box, based on a prefabricated timber construction, rising into the sky like the towering L’Ardevaz mountain in the background. Continue reading →

This 1,500 sq. ft. vacation home sits on a half an acre lot in New York. The house is cladded inside and out in 12” wide cypress boards, which give it a straightforward box-like simplicity. Continue reading →

Pryor is a 3,200 sq. ft. prefabricated family vacation home on a hillside in Montauk, NY. The house was designed so the owners, a couple with two young boys, could interact with the surrounding environment. Continue reading →

John Pardey Architects created a new extension to an original 1950’s split-level home. Complementing the existing house design, the addition is an iroko-cladd box-like structure with a metal-clad, floating butterfly roof. Continue reading →

Located on Fire Island, NY, this 1,440 sq. ft. compact home from Bates Masi Architects, is a two level ‘tree house’, as the owner likes to call it, situated in a beautiful dense grove of pines and hollies with large glass openings overlooking the bay from the second level. Continue reading →

Situated on an old Japanese cherry-farm in Sanjhih, Taiwan, this wooden house is designed to become a part of nature and in some way give itself over to demanding wind, flooding, frequent typhoons and earthquakes in the area. Continue reading →

Designed by Vietnamese Vo Trong Nghia Co., the wind and water bar (wNw) has been proposed as a temporary, low-cost, high speed construction prefab model for flood-stricken areas in Vietnam. Continue reading →

Nestled in an abandoned farm overlooking lake Mjøsa in Norway, this small structure is a modern home for two historians and their children. After tearing down the existing barn on the farm (due to rotten main structure), its 100 years old cladding have been reused as exterior cladding and terraces for the new house. Continue reading →