I've been kind of obsessed with prefab construction generally, and shipping container building - or cargotecture - for a long time. Really since graduate school at the Institute of Design at IIT. It's everything we based Epicycled on. I love the idea of house, or building as product.
So, when we decided to do this jump from Seattle to Port Townsend, where the housing market is just as tight as Seattle, we bought a small piece of property and decided to build. We never considered stick built.
Modular prefab generally is more resource efficient. The build isn't dependent on weather, it takes place in a controlled environment and waste can be managed effectively.
Often, labor costs can be reduced through automation deployed in the factory that cannot be deployed in a site-built situation.
Modular prefab homes are generally built to a much higher standard as they have to withstand transportation. Most stick-built homes would fall apart if they had to be transported on a truck.
We looked at a wide range of modular prefab. Initially we cast a wide net, but as we closed in we looked seriously at:
We ended up working with Cargotecture to design a custom, modular prefab house out of shipping containers. So excited! Can't wait!
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