With a tiny footprint, understated modern design and sustainable features like insulation made from 100% recycled newspapers, double glazed windows and the ability to achieve zero carbon status, these sophisticated prefabs definitely are overcompensating for their small size - and we like it!
Forget the Slomin Shield - if you really want home security, move into this home that transforms into an impenetrable concrete cube at the push of a button.
Team Florida's 2011 Solar Decathlon FLeX House is a smart prefab home for hot climates that creates a comfortable, efficient interior environment through the use of photovoltaics, passive design, and shading techniques.
True, the people who live in this exquisite glass house shouldn’t throw stones, but they should brag. Not only is their home made from the carefully renovated architectural remains of a cannon foundry from the middle ages, it also has a gorgeous (and contrastingly modern) outer shell made of glass.