I was riding home and i saw this trailer with a big piece of a modular house on it... There are a lot of these things going up around here... Some of them are just normal and some of them are super high dollar places..
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It's still a trailer home. But if you buy a trailer instead of a house, you can afford a kick-ass bass boat!
i am telling you.. prefeb is the wave of the future... you can build fast and cheap and you can configure a home in any way you like...
modulars are one thing... and then there are companies that make all these different walls and you just order them nd they show up... or pre-fab trusses.. they will make anything in a factory these days and ship to you on a flatbed...
eventually the prefab prices will come down a little (i think by the time you build it might be close to regular construction prices, no?).... they work so well, especially the one's that are contemporary and embrace more industrial materials like cement, corrugated steel, glass, exposed beams. etc... Dwell magazine usually has a few per issue. i think they only suck when they have a faux colonial or psuedo provincial kind of look. the architecture needs to make sense with the surround/land.. or the design solutions need to be reductionist, industrial, simple and therefore beautiful.. you know what i mean?.
even in paradise cove in malibu the mobile homes are selling for close to a milliion (granted some of them are beautiful).
things are so out of control up here in LA that all i can imagine is scoring some land some where north and doing prefab.... someday.
noel.
i hear you on that... one of my favorites is rocioromero.com
... the cost to construct is normal-ish... even at full pop they say 100,000
for a house that you move right in to... thats hiring out all of the work not
including site prep i dont think... if you can do framing and stuff i am sure
you could do it for way less... the kit is only 30k.. thats the cost of the structure
without the foundation, finish elements, plumbing, electricity or windows... i
am actually considering building a house now... i can build on a slab for less
than a pre-fab because i can do a lot myself... but you do save a lot on labor
because the things goes up so fast... i think i would rather just put a place
up on a slab to tell you the truth... but for sure i will look at pre-fab elements
like walls and trusses once i get my ideas straight on the floorplan... i like
the idea of steel poles and beams too... to make a big box and then you can make
whatever walls you want or have a wall of windows.. or whatever.. i will post
a photo of one of my favorite buildings out here that i have in my head when i
think of the type of home i wold like to build...
yeah, that link is exactly what i was talking about. spaces like that seem so livable to me. i think that the prefab/modular housing looks so much better than the 'custom' homes they are putting up everywhere.. its like a virus of bad design. i wish they could take a neutra house and prefab it too.
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