Sunday, 19 October 2008

Prefab homes by Hive Modular

















Prefab homes by Hive Modular are practical, functional, well-designed homes. The prefab B-Line is named for it’s “Bar” shape; keeping a simple and elegant form to provide maximum value and interest while controlling cost and size. The B-Line homes provide gracious living for those who believe less can be more.
















The Hive prefab homes are available in a small, medium and large version of the basic model, any of which can be ordered with a flat or pitched roof, with clean modern or traditional siding and windows and with or without an attached garage.

The B-line small is ideal for use as a cabin or second home. The medium version is a great choice for urban infill lots or where a smaller full-featured home is desirable. The large version of these prefabricated houses is a wonderful home for a medium sized family or empty-nesters who need a guest room.

Hive Modular sells several models of contemporary modular homes with an emphasis on excellent architectural design.
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Lifepod Prefab Home by Kyu Che Architects














Based in San Francisco, Korean-born architect Kyu Che, designed the Lifepod; a versatile, collapsable, lightweight, and nomadic, fully functioning high-tech mini home capsule. It is a fully functioning cool enough to let you escape miles away, to a lake, beach or in a forest.

Originally conceived in 1997, offering the best of 21st century automotive, aeronautic, nautical, and RV technologies, this modular prefab home fits into a 40 ft container and can be shipped worldwide within weeks.















Mimicking terrestrial mammals, the structural system of this unique prefab home is a quadrupedal fuselage, which allows adjusting the Lifepod to the surrounding landscape instead of the other way around.















“Kyu Che architectural research involves high tech portable capsule habitats that explore the relationship between man and nature from an eastern philosophical point of view while utilizing 21st century technologies to create bionic systems that are ecologically harmonious.”

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