Prefabricated architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about prefabricated architecture
Project • By The Room Architecture and Design • Masterplans
Harvest Communities
Conventional residential subdivisions across Southeast Asia frequently prioritize mass earthmoving, clearing natural hydrology and productive soil to install rigid asphalt grids and high-density concrete housing. Harvest Communities presents an alternative masterplan model designed by The Room Architecture and Design, structuring residential expansion around preserved farmland, productive agricultural parcels, and natural contours. The plan prioritizes long-term operational efficiency and resource conservation by integrating living environments into an active agricultural landscape rather than displacing it. Built interventions sit lightly on the terrain, ensuring that natural water channels, soil microbiomes, and agricultural yields remain... More
Project • By Metamorphosis Architecture • Private Houses
Prefabricated Rustic Cottage with sloping roof
Prefabricated Rustic Cottage with sloping roof providing shaded verandahs
Has a grit texture pasted on the exterior sheet of panel to give the appearance of a mud wall.
Designed for speed, precision, and sustainability, the entire structure is manufactured as prefabricated assemblies in a controlled workshop environment and then transported to site for rapid installation.
The result:
✓ Faster construction timelines✓ Superior quality control and craftsmanship – with insulation.✓ Minimal site disruption and material wastage✓ Beautiful, sustainable architecture delivered efficiently
Whether for farmhouses, eco-resorts, or weekend retreats, prefabrication is redefining how we build.
Metamorphosis Architecture, Chandigarh
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Project • By Metamorphosis Architecture • Private Houses
Prefabricated Bamboo A Frame Retreat
Designed for speed, precision, and sustainability, the entire structure is manufactured as prefabricated assemblies in a controlled workshop environment and then transported to site for rapid installation.
The result:
✓ Faster construction timelines
✓ Superior quality control and craftsmanship
✓ Minimal site disruption and material wastage
✓ Beautiful, sustainable architecture delivered efficientlyWhether for farmhouses, eco-resorts, or weekend retreats, prefabrication is redefining how we build.
Metamorphosis Architecture, Chandigarh
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Project • By SkreinStudios • Pavilions
The Icon Hub
The ICON is a modular, mobile, and regenerative architectural concept that represents a forward-looking vision for the built environment—scalable, reversible, sustainable, and rooted in principles of ecological and technological integration.
Initially imagined, designed, and commissioned by Hub Culture, and further developed in collaboration with BYLD, the ICON is a pioneering study on “dwell-time” in the evolving context of mid-21st-century life. It serves as a reconfigurable Hub that responds to emerging needs at the convergence of mobility, electric transportation, convenience, and real-time data. Designed to move and adapt, the ICON invites a rethinking of how spaces are used, assembled, and shared in a world in const... More
Project • By Scandurra Studio • Primary Schools
NEW Neighbourhood for Educational Wonder
“NEW – Neighbourhood for Educational Wonder” is the winning project of the international competition “Future School for Ukraine”, initiated by Lithuanian government for a faster and efficient reconstruction of schools damaged after the invasion of Ukraine, implemented by Central Project Management Agency in partnership with Lithuanian Union of Architects.
The project has been awarded for its adaptability, sustainability, and speed of implementation. Funded by the Lithuanian Fund for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, it will serve as the blueprint for constructing new schools in Ukraine and will be available to Ukrainian institutions and international partners by mid-2025.
Scandurra Studio
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News • News • 29 Feb 2024
Appareil Architecture’s prefabricated modular cabin prioritizes eco-responsibility
Montreal-based Appareil Architecture has completed the Micro-Cabine, a small-scale cabin that was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Designed for a natural setting, one typically off the beaten track, Appareil focused attention on minimizing the building’s ecological footprint by combining strategies related to its scale and prefabrication — this approach informed the studio’s architectural thinking and resource-saving construction methodology.
Félix Michaud
Less is invariably more
The Micro-Cabine is described as “a special project” by Appareil Architecture, one that is part of a period of research and development that began in 2020, during Covid’s mandatory lockdowns. It w... More
News • News • 25 Jan 2024
Horatio’s Garden Room provides a nurturing environment for people with spinal cord injuries
London-based Mcmullan Studio designed a sustainable, pod-like building for Horatio's Garden, a charity that promotes the well-being of people with spinal cord injury in beautifully landscaped, accessible gardens in the heart of NHS spinal cord injury centers (the NHS is the UK's National Health Service). Created by leading landscape designers, the gardens are peaceful, inspiring and restorative oases for patients, their families and friends and hospital staff to enjoy.
Jim Stephenson
Best in Show
The pod-like garden room was created for Horatio's Garden as part of the charity's first show garden at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023. The project was created in collaboration with landscape design firm Harris B... More
News • Innovations • 10 Jan 2024
Concrete and MOOS complete sustainable and modular social housing project
Amsterdam-based Concrete, a multidisciplinary interior and architecture studio, has partnered with MOOS, an innovative housing concept that seeks to address the widespread shortage of homes across the Netherlands in a responsible, affordable, and scalable manner. MOOS — an acronym standing for “In the Middle Of Our Street” from “Our House” by English band Madness — builds sustainable, high-quality, community-focused homes using a prefabricated system that is fully demountable. Working together since MOOS’ launch in 2020, Concrete and MOOS have just completed MOOS Euterpe, the first sustainable and modular project to be fully realized by MOOS.
MOOS by concrete
A social housing project locat... More
News • News • 2 Jan 2024
VON M completes a low-tech, sustainable office building in Tübingen
Stuttgart-based architecture and interior design studio VON M has completed a low-tech, sustainable office building for municipal housing and service company GWG Tübingen (Tübingen is a small university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany). The building’s contemporary working environment is a reflection of GWG’s outlook, both socially and ecologically.
Zooey Braun
Zooey Braun
Designed with an elegant restraint, the four-story timber structure has something of a mediating role in the midst of a heterogeneous urban setting: the office building’s design respects the height of a neighboring residential building, while its facade and floor heights complement the new buildings of a nearby... More
News • News • 15 Nov 2023
Delavegacanolasso designs a modular house among pine trees in Madrid
In its design approach to Fresnos (translated as Ashes), Madrid-based architectural studio Delavegacanolasso set about creating “a simple and pleasant house” surrounded by nature. The project’s scope was determined by its rugged setting: a sloping site with an abundance of pine trees and holm oaks. The studio placed the house in a natural clearing between the pines — hidden from the road but open to the forest, the development altered as little of the terrain as possible.
Paco Marín
Delavegacanolasso
Anchored on a sloping hillside, Delavegacanolasso designed a house that works as a large porch. The structure starts at the terrain’s natural height — from here, it is supported by a... More
Project • By Tiny Villa • Private Houses
Tiny Villa Vinkenveen
In the heart of a property that has been in our family for over half a century, a remarkable transformation has taken place. What was once an ageing caravan, nestled amidst cherished memories, has now evolved into a unique and deeply personal tiny house. Designed as a collaborative family project, this creation brings warmth and a profound sense of home to the world of compact living.
Bowie Nijdam
Bowie Nijdam
The idea began with a desire to break away from the conventional tiny house experience, opting for an ambience that feels genuinely homely. For Bowie Nijdam, a passionate interior designer, and his father, it was a shared vision to rejuvenate the family's beloved property and embark on a creative journey together. The proje... More
News • News • 29 Sep 2023
Sustainable prefab house journeys from Quito to the Galápagos Islands
“Sula” is a prefabricated home designed by architect Diana Salvador for a family living on the Galápagos Islands. This sustainable house is named after the Blue-footed Booby, a bird endemic to the Galápagos Islands and whose scientific name is Sula nebouxii.
JAG STUDIO
JAG STUDIO
Sula was prefabricated in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, over a period of two months. The design consists of around 17,000 screws and 2,000 made-to-measure pieces, including wood, metal, and glass elements. As part of a meticulous operation, the home was transported in two trucks to Guayaquil, a seaport in Ecuador. From here, it was loaded onto two containers and journeyed to the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz, the s... More
Project • By Design Studio NAO • Shops
Pâtisserie La Gare by Louis Robuchon
This is a standalone baked sweets shop project in Japan.We are facing worldwide sharp inflation rises as never before due to the covid pandemic and the war.Construction cost is no exception, and architects & designers need more precise, flexible and sharper project decisions.
Takuma Uematsu
Takuma Uematsu
Our challenge here was to be faced with this chaotic modern era.We knew that project cost control was extremely difficult in this period, so we tried to find a simple material scheme and construction method, yet the brand value and elegance remained.The building itself is prefabricated modular type, constructed by a crane in a day at the site. We finished the exterior with white painted boards - It is just another white wall... More
Project • By KLAB architecture (kinetic lab of architecture) • Nurseries
Public Nursery in Glyfada
The design and construction of public buildings in Greece is problematic, as the architect is not in charge of the construction. One of the biggest challenges of this project was to reintroduce the role of the architect as the essential contributor.
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
Additionally, we intended to give prominence to the construction method of prefabrication. Prefabrication, one of the conditions of the competition also defined the final form of the building as the basic module would have to be transported on a truck.
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
The concept of the project was to design a building that would relate to the scale of its users while also introducing a new typology, that of the urban village. The mai... More
News • News • 4 Sep 2023
ELASTICOFarm surrounds a “hole” with a house
In Cambiano, an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, architect Stefano Pujatti of ELASTICOFarm has created a truly idiosyncratic abode. “The Hole with the House Around” is a renovation and extension of an existing 1970s residential building, set within a private park. The new residence comprises a series of cube-like volumes that rise above the original home. Elevated on yellow forked metal pillars, the volumes cluster around a central quadrilateral void.
Anna Positano, Gaia Cambiaggi | Studio Campo
Anna Positano, Gaia Cambiaggi | Studio Campo
“The house disengages from the earth, ascends, and relies on a pre-existing structure on which it ultimately leans, becoming its rebellious coun... More