the prefab home revolution continues

Shipped anywhere, including Mongolia. This is a custom designed, pre-fabricated house from Pacific Homes, which is based in Vancouver, Canada. I look at their work and shrug. This has been done before, and it will be done again. I hope that they don't overextend themselves as a company and try to focus on a niche market where their service makes sense.

Homebuilding statistics are constant on one point, and it bears repeating (which I do a lot on this blog)--Most houses--over 96% are site built and stick built. By hand, with inputs from a wide variety of trades. Assembly line principles can be applied to site built homes and are more effective and more efficient than anything done in a factory. After all, no construction site has to pay for lighting or air conditioning.

I'm rethinking my blog byline "ruminations about architecture and design." It makes me think of cows. Moo.