The New York Times recently featured a prefab house called the BrightBuilt Barn.

According to the BrightBuilt Barn website:

BrightBuilt Barn, a project that pushes the envelope of sustainable design, is the practical outcome of an in-depth collaboration between a team of the Northeast’s top green professionals and builders, and a visionary client coming together to create a super-green, offsite fabricated, and beautiful Net-Zero building that can be replicated and adapted over time.

The details:

model: BrightBuilt Barn

designer: Kaplan Thompson Architects

manufacturer: Bensonwood

price: $200,000

size: 700 sf

beds: 1 - 2

baths: 1

Follow the regularly updated blog to track the progress or check out the media kit (pdf) to see floorplans.

Other coverage around the web:

• Jetson Green on September 19, 2008 and December 30, 2008.
• Lloyd Alter at TreeHugger on December 30, 2008.
• Materialicious on January 12, 2009.
• Inhabitat on January 16, 2009.

For more details, read the entire article.