In March we posted about KieranTimberlake Associates‘ Cellophane House which is now featured at the MoMA’s Home Delivery exhibit. In the comments on that post, a few readers have been kind enough to lend us their thoughts about the home.
We will be forever grateful to the MoMA for having the audacity to fund such an ambitious exhibit, Home Delivery , that will feature some of the best names in modern prefab. In addition to the exhibit, they have started a corresponding blog profiling the homes that will be displayed. We will continue to highlight some of the interesting output of this blog.
Continue reading for an excerpt from the entry about the Cellophane House as well as more photos.
LivingHomes® (livinghomes.net), a premier developer of modern, sustainably designed, prefabricated homes, is proud to announce a new collaborative relationship with award-winning Philadelphia-based architecture firm KieranTimberlake Associates LLP (KieranTimberlake). KieranTimberlake is a nationally recognized firm known for its research, innovation, and inventive design. Founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, the firm’s projects span the planning, programming, and design of all types of new structures and their interiors. The firm has long been a leader in sustainable design
and offsite fabrication. The “expandable” single-family LivingHomes by KieranTimberlake were
inspired by their much-lauded Loblolly House. LivingHomes is also introducing a new higher-
density, hybrid townhouse unit that can be attached or detached.
The New York Times is reporting on a bold move my the Museum of Modern Art in New York City: the museum has commissioned four architects to bring their prefab homes to a vacant lot in New York in an exhibit that is sure to greatly raise international awareness of what today’s prefab structures have to offer. We’ll be covering this exhibit more as information becomes available and when it is installed.
the Museum of Modern Art has commissioned five architects to erect their own prefab dwellings in a vacant lot on West 53rd Street, adjacent to the museum. Whittled down from a pool of about 400, the five architects are participating in “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” an exhibition opening in July.
As much as any man-made shelter can, his new house gives the impression that it has taken root on its own initiative among the tall trees. The three-bedroom structure rises from the sandy ground on husky wood pilings that resemble the trunks of the region’s distinctive loblolly pines. It’s camouflaged on three sides by a lacy scrim of long cedar slats. You would never suspect that Kieran’s all-natural beach shack, dubbed the Loblolly House, is actually a child of the machine.
Designed on a computer in the Philadelphia office of his firm, KieranTimberlake, the house’s 3-D construction specs were e-mailed to a custom builder in New Hampshire, who turned out a flat pack of precision-cut panels embedded with all the necessary pipes, wires and windows. Those panels were shipped to Maryland on the beds of standard 8 1/2 -foot-wide tractor-trailers.
