We live in the midst of ongoing global challenges; depletion of natural resources, rising energy costs, population growth and mass migrations to urban centers. All of which threaten the quality of our daily lives now and into the future. Confronting these issues, leading architects, designers and builders are exploring prefab building technologies to leverage their benefits in producing smarter, better, sustainable housing design and construction.
Prefab Agenda: Sustainable Dwelling Design for the 21st Century
is a book which profiles these innovators and the prefab building systems they are exploring in leading a technological revolution in dwelling design – in their words and images.
Prefab building technology offers immediate sustainable advantages based on precision fabrication, less waste of materials, ease and speed of assembly, flexibility in design and lower impact on the building site.
Many prefab systems are not well known despite their advantages. The variety of these systems virtually insures that a better product, more efficient process and affordable solution is available for any site and environment. Meanwhile, new design software capabilities are generating innovative dwelling design which exploits new materials and structural configurations.
Prefab Agenda explores a wide range of prefab systems in use and in the pipeline in photos, architectural renderings and diagrams and in the words of these architects and builders. It is available for download here in PDF.
The purpose and scope is described further in the AGENDA section.
The contents and sample pages can be reviewed in the PREVIEW section.
An excerpt from the profiles is provided in the PROFILE section. Contact information is listed in the LINKS section.
Contact the author: robert@om9design.com