Prefabricated Architecture
Prefabricated and modular building systems designed for efficiency, adaptability, and scalable construction.
Supra-Simplicities Builds a Modular Steel House for a Retired Mother at the End of a Kaohsiung Alley
In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a prefabricated steel grid replaces an aging concrete home and borrows a school sports field as its main outlook.
Kaiserslautern Students Screw Together a Reversible Festival Pavilion on a Former Innsbruck Landfill
A 16 m² timber seating landscape at Innsbruck's Rossau, braced in red and clad in foil and safety netting, built to be unscrewed and reused.
Piertzovanis Toews Sets a 15 m² Pavilion of Sliding Doors into a Swiss Village Meadow
In Nuglar-St. Pantaleon, a pale green timber pavilion born from an open letter to the council opens to its meadow through translucent sliding panels.
PLUG arquitectura modular Lifts a 54 m² Black Cabin onto Posts Beneath the Peaks of Argentine Patagonia
In Villa Meliquina, Neuquén, a compact solar-roofed cabin in black corrugated metal and timber turns tall windows toward pines, peaks and night skies.
Tomas Mielnikowicz Lays an L-Shaped Concrete Pavilion with Sliding Metal Shutters on Farmland near Mercedes
A 228 m² house outside Mercedes, Buenos Aires, where a thin concrete roof on round columns shelters glass walls and sliding corrugated screens.
tresarquitectos Lifts a Prefabricated Gabled Cabin onto Concrete Columns in the Forests of Rionegro, Colombia
In Rionegro, Colombia, a 54 m² steel-framed prototype rests on a few concrete columns, touching about 7% of its footprint with a deck toward the forest.
Symbiotic Pack: A Foldable Modular Balcony Inspired by Space Station Logic
A retrofittable balcony system that folds, connects, and redeploys along building facades to restore outdoor living in dense housing.
Dynamic Modules Shelter: A Telescopic Ring for Mountain Pilgrimage
A circular modular framework of steel, bamboo, and fabric grows vertically with demand, wrapping communal ground in adaptable shelter.
A Shelter Made of Scaffolding: Reversible Architecture for Pilgrim Gatherings
Yuechuan Jin reimagines construction scaffolding as a reusable, adaptable structural system for temporary pilgrim accommodation.
Fold Bunk: A Foldable A-Frame Sleeping House for Pilgrimage Settlements
A modular dwelling that compresses into a flat transportable package and unfolds into a timber A-frame pilgrims village unit.
Reconstituted Play: A Modular Kit That Lets Refugee Children Build Their Own Playground
Triangular masses, recycled inner tubes, and ropes form an open-ended spatial vocabulary that children rearrange to create their own play landscapes.
Play: Fragments of Their World: Remembered Architecture Rebuilt as a Modular Playground for Refugee Camps
Tom Gardner abstracts domes, arches and towers from the homelands of displaced families into a kit of child-scaled play parts for camp settlements.
