Custom Prefab Trends

Prefab: Don't Ask, Don't Tell?, Dwell Magazine, April/May 2004, recaps some current developments in the prefabrication of quasi-custom homes, including:

• High-quality prefab cottages for a country resort. Due to the traditional stigma associate with factory-built housing, the developer, resort publicist, and architect all prefer not to advertise that the resort units are in fact prefabricated (hence the article's title).
• Royal Home of Toronto Canada is launching its Q Series modernist modular homes and cottages. According to the article, these homes are a "green product" and can be built in just three weeks. (See image above.)
• Architects David Salmela and Tim Alt, and landscape architect Shane Coen have designed Mayo Woodlands, a 470-acre housing development on land owned by the Mayo Clinic. High-end custom homes incorporate prefabricated wall panels.
• Dwell Magazine's own prefabricated Dwell Home continues to progress and is currently scheduled for installation on site in North Carolina this April 5th.

For more on this topic, see also on this site:
Prefab Modern
refabricating Architecture