The company designed three types of units with different layouts and sizes. The small 352 square foot HO2 house has an open planwith a full bathroom and functional kitchen. The HO3 knits three ...

Theres a lot to be said for paring life down to the essentials. If youve ever lived in a cramped shoebox apartment you probably discovered there are actually benefits to a simplified lifestyle: you ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

Rammed earth, sod, yak wool, reclaimed wood, oriented-strand board, straw ... nowadays, the smorgasbord of offerings in alternative building methods and materials is staggeringly abundant, if not a ...

One of the fastest-growing trends in prefabricated housing is the use of shipping containers to build homes. These properties ...

The asymmetrical Flying Box House is split into three levels, each of which is 100 square meters in size. The ground floor, which sits on challenging sloped terrain, serves mainly as a covered parking ...

2627 Banks St., New Orleans, La. For sale: $159,000 Shipping containers are the mainstay of the import business. Sturdy enough to crate cargo thousands of miles and handle the squalls of crossing the ...

Although prefab construction is still growing slowing in the United States (currently at about 5% of all new homes built), it is gaining traction here and is a major form of construction in other ...

There’s a lot to be said for paring life down to the essentials. If you’ve ever lived in a cramped shoebox apartment you probably discovered there are actually benefits to a simplified lifestyle: you ...