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Dwell on Design visitors loved the prototype HOM Escape in Style. Kimberly Parker, head of PR for HOM, provided some details.
Designed by KAA Design Group in Los Angeles, the three different HOM models range from 1,000 - 3,600 sf and can include as many as 6 bedrooms! The listed price per sf is $200, though customization options will most likely push that number higher. HOM is a manufactured home -- commonly known as a "trailer":
One advantage of the "mobile home" designation of HOM:
There are a number of differences between the more traditional construction of most prefabs and the construction of manufactured housing. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages that should be considered before buying. We'll write more on those differences soon. model: Model 1
size: 1,000 sf
br: 2
model: Model 2
size: 2,000 sf
br: 3-4
model: Model 3
size: 3,600 sf
br: 4-6
All models:
status: prototype/not yet for sale
price: ~$200/sf
style: modern
method: trailers ("manufactured")
housing code: HUD
The Good Human's Prefab Wednesday took the week off. Inhabitat's Prefab Friday looked at a Swiss prefab that uses straw bales: We’re quite taken by Strohhaus in Eschenz, Switzerland. Designed by Zurich-based architect Felix Jerusalem, this home masterfully combines prefab with sustainable materials, primarily prefabricated strawboard panels that provide affordable, environmentally sound insulation. Jetson Green covered GreenMobile, an "ultra-affordable, modular green [manufactured] home": GreenMobile was awarded $5.8 M from FEMA to further develop the prototype and roughly 80 units are in the pipeline right after that prototype comes through. 100khouse likes the 'Option' House, covered on Prefab Friday a couple weeks back. G Living commented on the TrailerWrap project: While the low cost motive behind the introduction of mobile homes in the mid-1900s was a good one, the execution was often aesthetically reprehensible, shoddily constructed and inefficient energy-wise. TrailerWrap set out to take these small, dilapidated (often abandoned) structures and re-fashion them into something exciting and remarkable, yet sustainable and affordable. Freshome covered the Perrinepod: a cute prefab home that can be built in just 3 days and withstand everything from earthquakes to cyclones. The Good Human's Prefab Wednesday showed a prefab development in London that was covered last year on some of the other blogs. Inhabitat's Prefab Friday featured the Single Hauz, a sort of house-meets-billboard: ...the idea takes shape in such a stylish little form that we can’t help ponder the challenge posed: how much space do you really need and where do you want it? TreeHugger posted a video of Adam Kalkin speaking about containers, and looked back at their enthusiasm of three years ago. |