Tom’s Hütte, a prefab cabin in Wienerwald, Austria by Heike Schlauch Robert Fabach | Photography by Albrecht Imanuel Schnabel
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Bascuñan House, Puerto Montt, Chile by Matías Silva Aldunate Architect
Push Button House by Adam Kalkin for IllyCaffe.
In just 90 seconds, a compact metal container opens into a fully furnished cafe, with functional kitchen, dining room, bathroom, bedroom, living room and library.
The ‘DD16’ modular house near Moscow, Russia by DublDom (dubldom.com) & Ivan Ovchinnikov (www.bio-architects.com).
From the architect: “DD16 is a prototype of modular compact house that was made for installation in remote places and extreme conditions. The house consists of 2 modules that are made at the factory.
The prototype was designed and made as a tourist equipment where the weight of every detail is taken into account so it can be used in very harsh conditions. The frame is made of laminated wood with milled ports. The ports helped to decrease the weight, cold bridges and gaps. Polyurethane foam is used for insulation, the rigidity of which helped to decrease the weight of inner finishing materials. The exterior finishing is made of composite aluminium sheets which allowed to make seamless surface from the top to bottom. This is a lightweight material that is resistant to the environment.
DD16 includes a bathroom with a shower, a double bed, dining table and some free space where the wood stove can be installed. Due to large glazing and the great amount of light, the space inside visually increases. The same principles are used in furnishing – rigidity, weight reduction and maximum use of space. Hidden niches are used for storage. Some furniture can be transformed or folded.”
Font Rubi Cottage, Camprodon, Girona, Spain by Marc Mogas & Jordi Roig
Photography by José Hevia
The rotating ReActor House (built for a week-long exhibition) inside the OMI Art Center, Hudson Valley, New York by Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder
Palmyra House, Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India by Studio Mumbai.
Photography by Arnout Fonck.
The 81 sqm Blackpool House, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand by Glamuzina Paterson Architects.
The Shack at Hinkle Farm, West Virginia by Architect Jeffery Broadhurst.
Living in Remote Landscapes: MINIMOD Catuçaba
From the architects
MINIMOD CATUÇABA is a primitive retreat with a contemporary reinterpretation, which more than an object aims to become an every-remote-landscape experience. MINIMOD presents an alternative to traditional construction: based on prefab plug&play logic, it incorporates the benefits that a newly-born industry has to offer. Quiet but not shy, its unique-in-Brazil CLT Wood-Technology combines industrialized products`efficiency and new technologies` sustainability with the sensitivity of the natural material par excellence.
MINIMOD exploration started in 2009 and still goes on. It`s very first prototype was constructed in Porto Alegre and installed near a lake in the southern wild landscapes. Happily, since then, quite a lot of new places have been explored. Both projects here presented belong to a new MINIMOD generation which inquires the idyllic Fazenda Catuçaba.
This old Fazenda is located in the east of São Paulo Estate surrounded by a chain of coastal mountains. With undulating landscapes and dense vegetation, its captivating views invites to be explored.
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