Muvbox Fast Food Restaurant from Reused Shipping Container Box

Muvbox is a fabulous and briliant shipping container box design inspiration of Fast Food Restaurant that was constructed from the old container and powered by solar energy that can generate 40% of the restaurant energy needs and the remaining 60% is filled by propane to full the kitchen appliances.



Muvbox, the company behind this portable restaurant concept, had their interior design and architecture done by Sid Lee, in collaboration with Ædifica. The interior featured modern kitchen set with seating for 28 peoples.



The Muvbox is a sophisticated design which recently emerged from Montreal, Canada and is a shipping container that opens up into a full-fledged mobile, outdoor fast food restaurant, the floor is made from recycled tires and made using reused 20-foot shipping container, the muvbox can be vanishes back into the cube and redeploying early the next morning in less than two minutes.



The new Muvbox Located in Montreal’s Old Port, Müvbox offers a variety of dishes featuring lobster from Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The muvbox is not only looks amazing, but probably tastes just as good with the best menu consists of fresh, high-quality local products, which allow you to enjoy seafood, Lobster rolls, pizza and other local lobster fro, the Magdalen Island. Visit Muvbox official website here.








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Straw House prefab home design ideas

This prefab home design 'Straw House' is located in Eschenz, Switzerland, has a simple, formal shape. However, this experimental prefab is far from simple because of its highly innovative materials.



Made form solid panels composed of compressed straw and wood particles and a small concrete core, this prefab home is unique as well as highly sustainable. I like how the exterior is also clad in protective translucent panels, so you could see the compressed strawboard panels.




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Prefab Home Live Edge

If you love a japanese prefab homes design style, this Prefab Home from Live Edge in West Oakland, California could be your nice choice. this prefab home is consists of one bedroom and a three bedroom prefab kit designed based on traditional Japanese woodworking post and beam systems.



With a clear Asian influence, this prefabricated, two-story house is based on an open plan space, large windows and a top terrace. The kit is comprised of posts, beams, floor panels, wall panels, doors, roof and ceiling components to be assembled on site.




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Luminhaus Modern Prefab Home Design

This Luminhaus modern prefab house design projects, a Rocio Romero prefabricated home design is a modern family retreat located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Amherst, Virginia.



With the help of friends and family, Jennifer Watson and Barry Bless purchased this prefab kit home for approx. $99,000, and by acting as their own general contractors they did a lot of the construction labor themselves.







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Prefab: Adaptable, Modular, Dismountable, Light, Mobile Architecture

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More and more architects (as well as their clients) are becoming aware of the benefits of prefabricated architecture. Here is a first-ever look at the light, modular, dismantlable, transportable, mobile, adaptable, self-supporting, and recyclable projects that make life easier for 21st-century nomads! Featuring over 25 extraordinary projects designed by progressive architects, PreFab takes a look at an assortment of intriguing prefabricated buildings whose functions range from single-family houses and guest pavilions to offices and bars.

Filled with 300 full-color examples and 50 architectural plans by the designers themselves, PreFab will prove to become the definitive reference for architects, contractors, homeowners, and anyone else interested in creating a prefabricated structure.

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Prefab Modern by Jill Herbers

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For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab has emerged as a great way for a design- (and cost-) conscious generation to achieve the dream of home ownership. Today, prefab houses are manufactured to the highest standards of construction and aesthetics. And with the internet, these houses can be ordered from all over the world--affording people everywhere the opportunity to acquire an affordable home of distinction.

Prefab Modern explores the best prefabricated houses on the market today, from all over the world along with a resource directory on how you can purchase them. Included are case studies from all over the US and around the world, from top architects and designers. Projects featured include:

* The Ikea "Blokok House"
* Michael Graves "Target House"
* Steven Holl's "Turbulence House" in New Mexico
* David Hertz's Venice, CA "Concrete House"
* "SUSI" and "Fred Houses" from Kaufmann, KFN Architects (Australia)
* Jennifer Siegal's "Office of Mobile Design" and "Seaview House"

Prefab is the inevitable next step to "cool" housing as the market looks for reasonably priced housing for first and second homes. Prefab Modern is the perfect guide to this undeniable and fascinating trend.

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PreFab Now (Hardcover)

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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.

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Prefab Houses Architecture

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This book shows around 25 international houses that are based on modular and prefabrication systems. All of them have ecological advantages in comparison to standard construction systems, since they represent a more effective use of resources and a reduction of construction time and there with costs. All houses are built in factories, carried by road and assembled on site. Thus, building materials can be used more economically and very few refuse is produced during construction.

Due to the actual spread of technologies and construction typologies, the international prefabrication industry can deliver up-to-date houses, aesthetically modern, and with an average rank of prizes from very cheap solutions to more exclusive ones, depending on the main material used (wood, steel, galvanised aluminum and concrete).

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Contemporary Prefab Houses (Hardcover)

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Contemporary prefab design is on the rise, becoming more and more popular every day. Is it a wonder why? Once blasted as a cheap building system that harkened back to the days when homeowners could order a home from the Sears, Robuck &Co. catalogue, contemporary prefab has blossomed into a viable industry that has created an unmatched enthusiasm for better living standards in today's modern world.

An ever-increasing body of talented architects and designers, includinig the many practioners showcased within this book are striving to make prefab the next revolution in residential architecture. The projects are presented in alphabetical order of the respective architects and designers. An index with contact information is enclosed.

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Prefab Prototypes: Site-Specific Design for Offsite Construction

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Prefabricated construction is a hot topic in architecture these days, and for good reason. Prospective homebuilders around the world are gravitating to prefab as an environ-mentally responsible and cost-effective way to achieve that holiest of grails: an affordable, well-designed house. If you're hoping to jump onto this bandwagon or are just interested in what prefab building really entails, Prefab Prototypes is required reading. While other prefab books on the market show what can be done, dangling pretty pictures of affordable homes before your starry eyes, Prefab Prototypes takes you to the next step—it shows you how.

Architects Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson have been working with prefab buildings for more than fifteen years. With Prefab Prototypes, they break prefab down into six systems, from most flexible to most complicated—panelized wood framing, sandwich paneling, steel framing, timber framing, concrete systems, and modular systems. Each chapter delves into the benefits and drawbacks of its respective method, and features detailed plans, sections, and photographs of projects they've completed that use each of these systems.

The resulting book is both a lush depiction of their prefab output as well as an in-depth analysis that will prepare you for taking the plunge into prefab building. If you're familiar with the prefab trend and want to graduate to the next level, Prefab Prototypes is your guide.

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PreFab Green (Hardcover)

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IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how each work together to create homes that make a difference.

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Prefabricated housing, an all-purpose term that is used to describe any home that is built partly off-site, is enjoying a revival, thanks to a handful of innovative architects and hip shelter magazines. In its new incarnation, prefab is catching the eye of design-conscious consumers who appreciate its style and efficiency.

Now, "built in a factory" means lower cost and higher-quality building components than many site-built homes. Most importantly, prefab and sustainability are a great match. Green prefab offers a more efficient way of building a home. People want homes that are affordable, enduring, healthy, and-now more than ever-environmentally sound.

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Prefab (Hardcover)

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Prefab presents a series of innovative homes and concepts that boldly demonstrate that this is not your grandmother's prefab, offers a glimpse into the history of prefabricated housing over the last century, and reveals a wealth of practical and attractive alternatives to the status quo. Prefab discusses architects, builders, and designers such as Walter Gropius and Philippe Starck, examines the historical precedents from Albert Frey's Corbusier-inspired Aluminaire house to Kisho Kurokawa's capsules, and showcases the work of twenty-four contemporary architects and designers who are exploring the myriad possibilities that prefabrication offers for housing of the future.

From the fantastical digitized aluminum prototypes of Gregg Lynn to the stylish functionality of Ikea's prefabricated apartments in Sweden, Prefab presents a series of innovative homes and space-saving concepts that show how far this building technique has come-and how far it can go.

Allison Arieff is a writer, senior editor of the architecture magazine dwell, and co-author of Trailer Travel. She is also the editor of several books on art and culture, including Airstream: A History of the Land Yacht and Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop. She lives in San Francisco.

Bryan Burkhart is the designer and co-author of Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America. As creative director of his own firm, Modernhouse, he has designed books for Taschen, Chronicle Books, and Gibbs Smith, Publisher. Burkhart also lives in San Francisco.

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Kintronic Labs Prefabricated Building

Today kintronic labs shipped the largest all-aluminum prefabricated building(16' w x 18' l x 11' h) ever constructed by our company northbound to the transmitter site of wepn radio in secaucus, nj.

Installed in the building are a three-tower 50kw directional antenna system phasor cabinet, an antenna matching unit in shielded housing, a sample line isolation inductor in a separate shielded cabinet and a standard 19-inch rack with transmitter and pattern selection controller installed. the building was manufactured in accordance with ibc specifications for the state of new jersey and includes a complete electrical distribution system and heating and hvac.

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Custom Prefab Homes - Desert House Prototype by Marmol Radziner Prefab

The Desert House Design is a custom prefabricated homes projected by Marmol Radziner Prefab and is located on a five-acre site in Desert Hot Springs, California designed for Leo Marmol and his wife, Alisa Becket. The house is oriented to best capture views of San Jacinto peak and the surrounding mountains. The house extends through the landscape with additional, covered outdoor living areas, which double the 2000 square foot interior spaces. A detached prefab carport allows the owners to leave the car behind as they approach their home.



The Desert House was designed for principal Leo Marmol, and his wife Alisa Becket. It was completed in Spring 2005 and is the prototype for Marmol Radziner Prefab. The Desert House employs four house modules and six deck modules, a quantity chosen to suit the wide desert landscape.

The climate inspired us to create covered outdoor living areas, and we developed sunshade modules to provide solar protection. Sheltered living spaces blend indoors with outdoors, simultaneously extending and connecting the house to the north wing, which holds a guest house and studio space. By forming an “L,” the home also establishes a protected, exterior environment that includes a pool and fire pit.



The Desert House derives 100% of its power from solar panels, while sunshades on the south and west facades minimize the impact of the harsh summer sun. In colder months, concrete floors provide passive solar heat gain, helping us to make the home sustainable.












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