The New Era of Prefab Homes

By on Jul 29, 2008 in Art | 7 Comments

Did you know prefab houses have been around since 1833. Did you know a house could be built out of cellophane? Did you know you could have prefab Micro Compact Home installed in about two hours after delivery and not have to buy any pesky furniture?

Now you know, so let’s say we put on some fancy duds, hit a cocktail party and shoehorn this knowledge into a conversation. But first, let’s get some more prefabulous info nuggets here:

MoMa’s latest exhibition: Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. July 20 – October 20, 2008.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum’s vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public.

Local Connection: The Cellophane House, a five-story dwelling consisting of transparent, recyclable materials was designed by Philly’s own KieranTimberlake Associates.

Cozy: The Micro Compact Home [m-ch] designed by Richard Horden of Technical University Munich is “a lightweight compact dwelling for one or two people. The micro compact home [m-ch] is a lightweight compact dwelling for one or two people. Its compact dimensions of 2.6m cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances, and its functioning spaces of sleeping, working/dining, cooking and hygiene make it suitable for everyday use.” Or if you’re filthy rich, it makes a great kid’s playhouse!

Rebuilding New Orleans Digitally: Using laser cutters to fabricate simple shelters quickly and inexpensively, MIT associate professor Larry Sass and his students “have deployed, specifically for this exhibition, a prototypical iteration of the Instant House called Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans: a 196-square-foot one-room shotgun house intended as one proposal for the rapid reconstruction of New Orleans.”

New Orleans prefab

Video: The BURST*003 a “kit Home” featured at the exhibition:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpVnWG0F0I[/youtube]

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  • peter

    ScribeMedia.org just released a new 5 mins video about the exhibition at MoMA HOME DELIVERY: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.

    It features the curator Barry Bergdoll and the architects: Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake of the Cellophane House, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier of Burst* 008, and Oskar Leo Kaufmann of System3:

    http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/07/31/home-delivery/

  • peter

    ScribeMedia.org just released a new 5 mins video about the exhibition at MoMA HOME DELIVERY: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.

    It features the curator Barry Bergdoll and the architects: Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake of the Cellophane House, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier of Burst* 008, and Oskar Leo Kaufmann of System3:

    http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/07/31/home-delivery/

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