Dwell Magazine this month is featuring the 7.83 Hz house, a prefab house that sets out to be as carbon neutral as possible. It only requires two truck loads of materials to assemble, is built with sustainable materials, and is extremely energy efficient. Designed by Youmeheshe, the firm of architects Simon Beames and Simon Dickens, The home is reconfigurable and low cost.
One of the world’s most valuable prefabricated structures, one that spent over fifty years in Africa, has been disassembled and sent to Queens. The Maison Tropicale, designed in 1951 by Jean Prouvé, goes on auction at Christie’s on June 5. According to the NYT, the estimated seeling price right now lies between $4 and $6 million.
TreeHugger writes the following about Sander Architects’ Hybrid House:
Portal frame structures are very cheap and good for enclosing large volumes efficiently, so Sander is able to build for $150 per square foot. Sander trademarks phrases like part prefab, all custom™ and says that “Prefab also has the added benefit of being eco-friendly, as off-site fabrication reduces waste energy in fabrication. A large part of our practice is devoted to implementing and researching green materials and environmentally-friendly design.”
