This is Boxhouse, an award-winning modern home in Boulder, Colorado, designed and built by Rob Pyatt as a University of Colorado College of Architecture & Planning project (advised/sponsored by Rick Sommerfeld). Boxhouse explores adaptive reuse and recycling of an existing 900 sf home built in 1948. Tons of images below …
In the heart of Seattle, the design professionals at Mithun see a farm rising vertically into the sky. Although it may never be built, the Center for Urban Agriculture (CUA) won “Best of Show” in the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge. Vertically constructed on a .72 acre site, the off-grid building is designed to be completely energy and water sufficient and will include 318 affordable apartments (studio – 2 bedroom). And on top of that, there will be greenhouses, rooftop gardens, a chicken farm, and fields for growing vegetables and grains.
It’s taken about two years, but the Goodwin-Wise Flatpak is finally becoming a reality, as you can see from these images. This home is in Massachusetts, and for those of you looking for prefab on the east coast, Flatpak is certainly an option. I really like how the house is tucked into the enveloping landscape, almost camouflaged from the entry way. See more at Amy Goodwin’s blog and photo album; via MoCo Loco.
This weekend at Dwell on Design (this is a sneak peak), Jeriko House and Patrick Tighe are going to announce a watershed collaboration on a new kind of prefab, the Nodul(ar) House. Readers of Jetson Green are familiar with Jeriko House, a Louisiana-based prefab company that we’ve written about here and here. Architect Patrick Tighe is well known and highly accomplished, including two major achievements: National AIA Young Architect (2006) and Rome Prize fellowship in architecture (2006-2007).
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with both Patrick Tighe and Shawn Burst, the CEO of Jeriko House, about the Nodul(ar) House.
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