Container Books:PreFab Now

PreFab Now (Hardcover)

Product Description

An in-depth look at state-of-the-art prefabricated and modular homes—the most popular, economical, and stylish options in housing today

PreFab Now explores the best prefabricated houses on the market today worldwide and addresses the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a prefab home over a custom-built one. This book also covers cost, sustainability, and durability. With a wealth of elaborate plans, drawings, renderings, and beautiful full-color images, PreFab Now is an invaluable resource for architects and homebuyers alive.


About the Author

James Grayson Trulove is an author, publisher, and editor of books on the subjects of architecture, landscape architecture, and garden design. His recent books include New Sustainable Homes, 25 Apartments and Lofts Under 2500 Square Feet, and Prefab Now. He resides in Washington, D.C., and New York.

PreFabNow, $ 26.37 Amazon.com, is a two hundred page square-format book by author James Grayson Trulove. His recent hardcover include 25 Apartments and Lofts Under 2500 Square Feet, New Sustainable Homes and the modern town house. This volume highlights the best examples of the striking prefabricated houses on the market - and examines issues such as cost, durability and sustainability. The book also includes drawings, plans, renderings and costly full-page color photographs of various architects and photographers.

Resolution: 4 Architecture Mountain Retreat which turned that 18 of the first 30 pages that takes on the contents and foreword. The 1800-square-foot house was built in a factory before being assembled at the place set up in the Catskills. Once the prefabricated bars were raised, were applied to the exterior cladding of cedar and cement board panels, the deck has been entertaining. My favorite item on this house is the butterfly roof with clerestory windows.

English landscape property such as Cedar House - designed by Hudson Architects - are enviable. The 3,450-square-foot home (use of off-site construction) was built in just one week. Wood panel floors, roofs and walls allow for easy installation; 15,000 untreated cedar shingles complete the exterior. Since the roof was slightly, ceiling beams were not erforderlich - hence the residence has high ceilings and wide open spaces. My favorite feature of this structure is a cantilevered corner window in aluminum frame.

Flexibility and mobility are found in Portable house from the Office of Mobile Design. This California apartment has spacious living and sleeping areas divided by a kitchen and bathroom. Is set after the expiry of the 12-by-60-foot steel frame to its website and by truck on a platform that is the case with metal siding and translucent polycarbonate panels that serve as windows fitted. My favorite detail here is the bamboo flooring because bamboo is a sustainable hardwood.

Another home designed and Resolution: 4 Architecture is in rural Virginia. The Country Retreat is a large house with 2,600 square meters of common areas on the lower level and private area on the top level. Once the prefabricated bars were raised, exteriors of horizontal cedar siding and cement board were applied accents, a ground-level stone courtyard lies a swimming pool. My favorite feature of this retreat is the view from the dining and living area on the above-mentioned court.

In addition to the Mountain Retreat, my favorite is resident in PreFabNow, Red Cabin designed by Alchemy Architects. In the Minnesota woods, sits a 750-square-foot house with two bedrooms and a Pantry cuisine is reminiscent of the picture of a tractor on a hill stranded. Constructed from two pre-configured modules, the home appears due to the large amount and on the roof deck floor. Clad in rough sawn siding, the house is painted red fire station to imitierenHütten nearby.

Next I will discuss the X-1, which is part of the X-Line by Hive Modular. The modular 2300-square-foot home - located in Minnesota, has - over 15 feet high ceilings in the dining room, kitchen, living room, master and second bedroom, and work area. Its facade is covered with maintenance free fiber-cement and metal siding, and windows are all black-clad aluminum. I would say the architects of the Hive Modular are fans of the artist Mondrian, on the basis of this prototype.

Among the houses featured here, I especially like the Mod3 Riverview. This green house has been designed by Studio 804 by Lawrence, Kansas. All his ceiling, wall and floor spaces are filled with recycled cellulose instead of fiberglass insulation. The exterior is using home-grown Douglas fir, to reduce fuel consumption with shipment of materials from abroad. Floor to ceiling windows are also used here to assure plenty of natural light that the need for artificial light.

While I can not imagine living in a mobile housing units - designed by Lot-Ek- It has a certain post-millennial charm. The device is built from recycled container. The interior and sub-volumes of fixtures, plywood, plastic and laminated plywood manufactured. Be extended if all sub-volumes, the number of square meters of housing will be increased by ten percent. Overall I would say this is an excellent illustrated book for anyone who is considering buying a prefabricated home.