I want to live in a prefabricated house

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Unlike tree houses, prefab houses now have the stamp of architectural cool about them. There is an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art about them and it’s featured in a slide show on Slate today. See also this gorgeous array of pre-fabs in a Wired slide show.

I visited the MOMA exhibition a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was pretty cool. The house pictured here has the proportions of a sugar cube and isn’t much bigger but has everything you need (except space) for four people to live in. Thanks to solar cells it is also energy-independent.

Perhaps my dream has something to do with 20 acres of fields and hilly woodland overlooking the sea. I would have my pre-fab delivered and installed and, bingo, instant idyll. Well, a geek can dream, can’t he?

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