#prefabrication

#prefabrication

Builders FirstSource, the largest American supplier of structural building products, quietly acquired the assets of Pennsylvania-based Pleasant Valley Homes, a wholesale manufacturer of modular homes. Lori Conrad, Senior Director of Corporate Communications for Builders FirstSource, confirmed to The Builder's Daily that the company acquired Pleasant Valley Homes' assets in November at an undisclosed price. Pleasant Valley Homes has sales of about 400 homes per year, according to Conrad, and operates in ten states in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, from Virginia to Maine.

When a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar last year, roads buckled and thousands of buildings collapsed. But a group of small, ultra-low-cost homes made from bamboo survived without any damage. Finished just days before the quake, the houses are emergency shelters for some of the millions of people displaced by Myanmar's ongoing civil war. Myanmar-based architecture studio Blue Temple worked with its spinoff construction company Housing Now to make the simple prefab homes as low-cost as possible while still able to withstand natural disasters.

Red Cabin is an experimental holiday developed as part of the Merryda Wiki World - Secret Camp, a forest-based project composed of more than a dozen discreet treehouses set within a metasequoia woodland inhabited by migratory birds. The project, located in Dongxihu District, , forms part of Wiki World's ongoing 'Wiki Building School' initiative, which explores alternative living models through co-building with nature.

Finbarr Fallon + 24 Category: Residential Architecture Design Team: Lorenzo Mattozzi, Marco Gazzola, Alberto Menozzi, Luca Beltrame, Fredy Fortich, Amanda Galiana Ortega, Andrea Ventura, Monika Wiecha, Chi Zhang Visualisations: Antonio Luca Coco, Gianlorenzo Petrini Co Architects: ADDP Architects LLP More SpecsLess Specs Finbarr Fallon Text description provided by the architects. MVRDV's pixelated facade design brings variety and identity to prefabricated modular towers in Singapore.

Revealed during the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Charlotte is a six leg construction robot from Crest Robotics that targets speed as the central problem. The makers say the machine can complete the shell of a 200 square meter (2,150 square foot) dwelling in about 24 hours. Coverage compares that output to 100 bricklayers over the same period. The idea pairs a walking chassis with an under carriage fabrication system so the body hovers over the wall path while the legs step the machine forward.

Text description provided by the architects. The project is based on total prefabrication in reinforced concrete. Modular panels make up all the building elements: facades, roofs and interior partitions. The typification of elements made it possible to speed up and simplify the construction, while emphasising the building's image.

The Softshell is constructed from a timber frame clad in canvas panels, its sharply pitched form recalling a familiar A-frame cabin. The canvas outer is made from a cotton-polyester blend, and comes in khaki, dark green, or navy colorways. Inside, the modular, hybrid structure offers a kitchenette, bathroom, window, and sitting area, while the verticality of the frame makes space for a hammock-like sleeping loft suspended in netting.

The Modular BV system redefines prefabricated housing, merging engineered precision with climate-smart design, producing homes that adapt seamlessly to their environments.

"Take your pleasure seriously," Charles and Ray Eames famously said in reference to cinema, culture, design, and, of course, architecture.