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Three Pines by Resolution: 4 Architecture

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Designed for a soon-to-be retiring couple, the home is sensitive to the clients wanting to age in place. The vast majority of the home was fabricated off-site at a modular manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania. On site, the local general contractor prepared the site and foundation for the arrival of six prefab modules.

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Nestron’s Plug-and-Play Prefabs Start at $40K and Don’t Require a Foundation

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Ten years in, the company now produces eight steel-frame models that roll off the factory floor "ready to live in, just as a car that leaves the manufacturing site is ready to drive," says Xu. One of our most exciting projects involved collaborating with a California client who wanted to create a tiny-house community for short-term rentals.

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Bofill Foundation Headquarters, Barcelona, Spain

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Owing to the nature of the collaborative and flexible work of the client, the design brief called for flexible spaces that can transform to accommodate various scenarios. Built in 1850, the 21x21m block stands as a testament to the industrial architecture of its time, representing a protected heritage example.

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A Shipping Container Home Rises on a Rocky Site Outside Stockholm

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Photo by Staffan Andersson Eight gray shipping containers form the home, which perches on a rocky, forested site outside Stockholm. The site was an unsold lot where many had tried to build but none had succeeded," Tham says. There was a general ban on dynamite, and the lot’s grade has an almost sixty-foot difference. "The

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Heliotrope perches Buck Mountain Cabin over forested site in Washington State

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US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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Photography Studio & Workshop by Kennerly Architecture & Planning

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Located on agricultural land in western Marin County, California, the site lies near a seasonal creek between ranch pastures and is flanked by Eucalyptus trees and Redwoods to the north and south respectively. The latent substance of a great project resided within the site and the client’s sensibilities: Our task was to reveal it.

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Haus.me’s Tiny $90K Prefab Can Be Installed in an Hour—and Even Comes With Cutlery

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The 120-square-foot microHaus doesn’t require permitting, hookups, or a foundation. We asked Max to tell us about his company’s latest design, the microHaus : a 120-square-foot ADU that can be upgraded to suit off-grid sites. One of the first microHaus models that we shipped was to a client in Portland, Oregon.