Open weeHouse!
Alchemy Architects is holding a winter open weeHouse party in Minneapolis:
(don’t worry, the home is now finished…)
weeHouse grows up
The Minneapolis Star Tribute has an interesting look at the success of the weeHouse since the first one was built in 2003:
The seductively simple one-room box with floor-to-ceiling windows has become a prefab icon, earning spreads in Dwell, Metropolis and the New York Times.
“It happened to be the first of the latest wave of prefab,” said Geoffrey Warner, who owns St. Paul-based Alchemy.
Four years later a dozen weeHouses and cleverly named not-so-weeHouses have cropped up in rural sites from Marfa, Texas, to Missoula, Mont., from the Poconos to the California coast.
PrefabHighlight: ALCHEMY architects’ weeHouse
Alchemy’s weeHouse is a modular system that really encompasses a great deal of the ambitions of the modernist, prefab movement. The modules are built using sustainable materials, are reasonable in size, and can be transported on a truck, already assembled. What is great about the weeHouse is just how customizable it is; this ability is evident in the various weeHouses already built: each one seems very unique. Furthermore, the weeHouse can be built in a number of factories around the country, reducing transportation costs and energy use.
You can read on for more photos.
CA Boom again features a “PREFAB ZONE”
CA | Boom 4, “the west coast independent design show”, starts on March 30. It will again feature a “PREFAB ZONE” that will include Living Homes, Clever Homes, Marmol Radziner Prefab, Sander Architects, kitHAUS, and Alchemy’s weeHouse.
New York Times features modernist prefab
The New York Times has a feature, in part covering modern prefab offerings from the likes of Modern Cabana, Alchemy Architects, and BlueSky MOD.
