![]() But after I evangelized for years after about prefab’s transformative potential - including, while I was editor in chief of Dwell So many architects have been obsessed with taking on the challenge). Just over a decade ago, when I published my book “Prefab,” the potential for factory fabrication to improve housing was tenable (and explains why Almost without exception, the wheel is at least partially reinvented every time. Prefab remains largely in the realm of the prototype. But it’s not until one can get to say, 20 or more homes that we’re looking at a new way of building. OneĬustom prefab home is expensive and complicated to produce the second one, less so. Using prefab for single-family homes, given the reality of current trends in financing, construction and development, will never quite achieve the desired goals of efficiency, affordability and good design. Much of that effort has been directed toward the design of single-family homes, what The Wall Street Journal described in 2004 as a “push to turn houses that come on trucks into objets d’art.” But a more affordable path to good architecture. In contrast to regular old housing construction, which happens pretty much the same way it has for decades, if not a century, prefab has long been promising better design and innovation and - the key to its intrigue ![]() Microunits in New York City designed by nARCHITECTS. The smaller units are complemented by residentialĪmenities provided in the building, promoting the concept of living beyond one’s four walls.” Her firm’s micro-unit, she says, “makes a big impact with small moves. The possibility of safer sites and better-manufactured buildings at standard construction costs. “Why shouldn’t we use assembly line techniques to build higher quality buildings? Modular construction offers “We believe a modular approach to high-rise housing will lead to a better quality of life for communities living near and around modular-basedīuilding sites,” says Gregg Pasquarelli, architect and principal of SHoP Architects. Modular construction not only makes construction more precise, sustainable and economically efficient, it can help relieve New Yorkers (and of course, any other urban inhabitants) of the typical congestion and extendedĬonstruction times associated with conventional building practices. Side that make the end product sustainable.” Credit GRO ArchitectsĪs GRO’s Nicole Robertson says, “There is sheer economy of scale that emerges as we build a dense multifamily project, and it is the integration of digital technology on both the design and fabrication Jackson Green in Jersey City, N.J., by GRO Architects features 22 attached single-family townhomes, which use modular construction to achieve sustainable and affordable housing. Steel and concrete residential buildings, will provide the city with 28 moderate-income apartments. And THE STACK by GLUCK+, one of New York City’s first prefabricated Is designing in Jersey City and Baltimore. A variety of housing types, from single-family to midrise/mixed-use buildings, characterizes the over 300,000 square feet of modular housing that GRO Architects It will be the first multiunit building in Manhattan to be built with modular construction. nARCHITECTS recently won adaptNYC’s competition to design a micro-unit apartment building, and will see its concept transformed into a 10-story building by 2015. It’s the killer app for the modular industry.ī2, a 32-story tower that is part of a 1,500-unit, mixed-use complex designed by SHoP Architects for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, will soon be the tallest modular building in the It’s an exciting time for modular building, especially in New York, and as someone who has been deeply immersed in the world of prefabrication for over a decade, I am glad to see the much-maligned building technologyįinding its proper niche. At 32 stories, it will be the tallest modular building in the world. B2 by SHoP Architects is the first of three new residential towers planned for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn.
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