Solar energy houses by Graft Architects

Graft Architects have unveiled a new solar energy house design that takes inspiration from the historic camelback by Graft Architects shotgun typology.

Traditionally camelback solar homes were built to allow the owners to add a partial second story to a residence which could serve multiple purposes. These next-gen solar camelback homes by Graft Architects have been designed for the “Make It Right Program”. The architects have designed 2 prefabricated units, which are constructed off-site.


The exterior staircase of the solar house carries the owners to a rooftop terrace, which might also be used a private deck for upper dwelling. It also gives the owners access to the photovoltaic array, which can easily be maintained this way.

Ashmount Residence Garden

Ashmount Residence Garden provokes the concept of courtyard living, interior garden keeps your interiors away from peeps and provides fresh air. Ashmount Residence Garden asks us why cut a tree in your backyard?
Ashmount Residence Garden brings space deck when you can use it in the most beautiful of ways to provide fresh air, cooling and above all keeps home away from the awkward eyes trying to get to your interiors?
Ashmount Residence Garden are designed by Ohashi Design Studio, the Ashmount Residence Garden tries to integrate a beautiful sprawling oak tree into an even more beautiful deck.


The fence of Ashmount Residence Garden matches the shape of the tree’s low-hanging branches and the sandblasted glass.
Ashmount Residence Garden provides security and natural lighting to illuminate the interiors in a green way. The indoor garden also facilitates plantations and opportunities for landscaping.

Homestead House by Michael Jantzen

Modular home generates solar and wind electricity, harvests rainwater.

Designed by Michael Jantzen, the Homestead House is a design for alternative housing that explores the potential use of renewable energy generating systems and recyclable materials to reduce the carbon footprint of its owners. The modular house is to be made from recyclable steel sheets, which are to be bolted together for easy disassembly. This allows the homeowner to construct it with ease and in minimum time and with minimum cost.

Being easy to disassemble, the house can also be reconstructed at any preferred location without spending too much on the entire process. Once the steel arches are bolted together, they don’t require any additional material to hold the house together.

The Homestead House is designed to function off-the-grid, where photovoltaic cells and a small vertical axis wind turbine generate the required amount of electricity to power the home. Other than on-site energy generating systems, the Homestead House harvests rainwater through the roof arches and directs it to water storage tanks that can be placed underground. Passive solar techniques are used to heat and cool the interiors according to seasons and the requirements of the homeowners

Vodafone Mobile Home

Solar-powered mobile home for Vodafone.

Vodafone is promoting its fixed phone and wireless internet service using a transparent mobile home that is powered entirely by the energy of the sun that is harnessed through roof-mounted photovoltaic panels. Designed by Waskman Design Studio, with Creative Space Culdesac, the home is currently being occupied by a blogger and his family of wife and two children, who are presently using the mobile home for a vacation.


Since the home has no built-in propulsion system, carrying it around town won’t be an ecofriendly affair. However, with lightweight construction that includes walls made of white polyethylene panels and a transparent polycarbonate structure, the mobile home doesn’t add much weight to the four-wheel-drive vehicle, which is used to tow the home. The 6m long and 2.5m wide home is divided into two floors, with a modernized interior and a well-equipped bedroom.

Uboat, houseboat that’s wholesome green

Solar-powered houseboat recycles waste.

For those of you who have had the pleasure of living in a houseboat, the experience might have been mesmerizing. From fun, this experience can quickly turn into a necessity if glaciers keep on increasing the sea level at a pace at which they’re today. Industrial designer Wyatt Little is trying to keep abreast with the needs of the future in the greenest possible way. Little has designed a stunning houseboat, which has been carefully planned after living in a houseboat for about six years.

Dubbed the Uboat, the electrically propelled houseboat eliminates the environmental issues commonly associated with boats. Mostly in all urban areas, there is always some sort of large body of water, be it a canal, bayou, lake, or ocean, which Little wants to make just as livable as land. By implementing this idea it would reduce commuter and residential pollution, all the while bringing a fresh new look to city waters that more often than not go unlooked.

The boat will not produce any sewage what-so-ever. All waste will be incinerated using a special toilet. Water comes from 2 different sources - the gray water will be collected by the vessel’s Heavy Duty PAR pump at the bottom of the vessel. This pump is capable of pumping 24 gallons of water per minute, so it is perfectly suited for daily tasks that require large amount of water like showers.

When considering drinking water the designer focused on the statistics that everyone needs to consume 1/2 ounce of water per pound of body weight. So, with this formula in mind Little designed a water cistern in the form of a glass wall that will sustain one person weighing approximately 200 pounds for at least a year. When the rain water is collected it will pass through a filtration system and zapped by an ultraviolet light inside of the tank, which makes it suitable for consumption The houseboat’s wooden deck is made from Plyboo FSC certified bamboo plywood, which is 100% renewable. The facades are Insulated metal panels which have a thin metal skin and foam insulation for the core. They provide excellent thermal protection and efficient use of materials. The boat floats on two large pontoons made of recycled polypropylene.

complex in Bucktown

a new seven-story condominium residence, will be built in the Bucktown area of Chicago, which will make sure that residents get green electricity and end up paying about 10% less on their utility bills. The project includes the construction of 94 one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging from 690 to 1,335 square feet. The apartment complex will use wind turbines to generate about 2% of the building’s energy requirements.

The apartments will be available for a starting price of about $200,000, with more luxurious dwellings being priced close to $499,000. A dedicated indoor parking lot will also be made available at an additional charge of $30,000, and the buyers who already follow the green path by driving a hybrid will get parking in a reserved area.

The building will also include a rooftop garden, energy-efficient lighting systems, indoor air purifiers and a dedicated recycling center. With that many green features, Senco Properties, the developer of the project, is looking forward to seeking LEED Silver certification.

Rural Space home

Designed by Philip Crewe, Rural Space is an investigation into creating a temporary living space to help rejuvenate British tourism. It was designed to accommodate seasonal holidaymakers, festival goers and school trips. It is built and maintained using traditional rural craftsmanship, and made out of sustainable, locally sourced materials such as beach and ash trees. Its minimum impact design means it could be put in places traditional houses can’t, and by being a temporary structure it avoids much of the greenbelt/national park planning regulations
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The ability to open up the walls and admire the view connects the user with the countryside; this is a key selling point over a traditional hostel or holiday cottage. The tower is self-sufficient with energy coming from a turbine and solar panels, while solar water heaters provide warm water for the shower. The toilet is a compost type toilet that doesn’t require a flush. Runoff tanks for the shower and cesspit for the compost toilet are buried in the ground under the floor, or could be connected to temporary surface tanks.

Give Container Homes a Chance

Container Homes thrive as the foreclosures are way up in regular housing market. So Container Homes are a hit for most people right now as building a new home is probably not an option for many.

Can we relay on a home made out of a used Shipping Container?

CONTAINERS ON A CARGO SHIP

Container Homes are Cheap & strong, so can be easily transportable by boat, truck, or train, shipping containers litter the ports of the United States as a result of our imbalanced Asian trade volume. Container Homes also stand a chance cos thousands of these containers are shipped to North America on a one way trip because it is more expensive to ship them back empty than to make new ones. Container Homes are an ECO friend solution to over a million of these huge cargo boxes just sitting on our ship yards as garbage.

Container Homes are popular these days as architects are beginning to realize that the containers can be cleverly turned into eco-friendly homes for people to live in. Container Homes come Hurricane proof, flood proof, mold proof, and termite proof, these metal. Container Homes are like Lego blocks are tough enough to be stacked 12 high empty. Container Homes can be cut open to add windows to provide daylight and even solar panels for energy, and welded together to make bigger Container houses. Used shipping containers can also be bought for $1,500 to $2,000, so they can be used to make relatively affordable housing.

Container Homes Apartment Complex Made From Shipping Containers.

Container Homes are the origin of most other forms of green building made out of Shipping Containers, because they are virtually a waste product which take recycling to a new level.

Container Homes are now ending up ad Container Apartment Complexes, Container Cities, Container offices along with innovative Container Shops and Container Shopping Malls....

Container Homes is the future of green recycling.

Modularean Eco Prefab Dollhouse!

we feature the best and the brightest in green prefab-ulous designs– so when we saw David Baker’s stunning, tiny Modularean Prefab House, we were excited to see that the joy of prefab architecture can now be appreciated even by the littlest connoisseurs. This miniature bamboo version of an eco-sensitive, modern, prefabricated home provides a way for kids to appreciate why grown-ups fawn over such thoughtfully constructed, highly-functional spaces. And, of course, in true green form, the Modularean Eco prefab Dollhouse is constructed of ecologically-farmed bamboo, and features many of the important elements of green building that you would see in a full-scale house, such as daylighting (with skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows), passive ventilation (raised floor and operable skylights), and prefab eco-friendly landscaping (with drought-resistant plants and gravel basins to manage stormwater runoff).

Quik prefab House

Prefabs can go bizarre but trendy too at the same time. If the Hemeroscopium prefab House was a bit too peculiar for you then you can set your eyes on Adam Kalkin’s “Quik prefab House.” The houses developed by Adam are constructed in just 10 weeks after the order is received.

The designer now hopes to top the Quik House with a smaller and trendier house known as the “A-Pod,” Some of his prefab homes are a single room in a single container, while the others prefab feature a range of structures built inside them with that luxurious prefab touch.

The prefabricated Maison EvolutiV home

Here’s a fine testament to the fact that eco-friendly design need not necessarily look a recycled cardboard milk carton. The Maison EvolutiV created by Olgga Architects as concept home for the Salon Europeen du Bois, is just the perfect show design that can convince even the most reluctant traditionalist into turning over a new green leaf. The energy-efficient home is currently developed using only two modules with the ground module being done in a chestnut stake skin in varying sizes. Cleverly enough, the second module is made to stand just over the first one and acts like a green roof that can also harvest rainwater!

With a wool insulation system reinforced with cellulose, it also incorporates a low-energy passive design that increasingly makes use of solar panels fitted in to maximize the usage of green-technology. Of course, the concept is just floated as a show home for the time being but we do see a lot of potential in this thing, at least in the vacation home sector if not in the actual residential building sector. This particular example of the Maison EvolutiV took around 100,000 euros to build but if you’re a hard-core treehugger, I’m sure you could find ways to knock that price tag by a good few notches with your ‘reuse, refuse, recycle’ motto.

Blue Sky Homes

Different designers have different views on prefab living While some of them want you to sacrifice all modern amenities for the sake of the environment, others want you to live the life you want but use the most sophisticated eco-technology to help you keep your carbon footprint minimal. Blue Sky prefab Homes believes in the second alternative, which is clearly shown in their prefab prototype installed in Yucca Valley in California.


The prefab home, which is touted as an “excellent example of clean, efficient, contemporary, desert prefab architecture,” has been installed to test the company’s building system and methodology. The prefab house is based around light-gauge steel framing allowing easy assembly on the site without polluting the ecosystem in the vicinity.
Avoiding construction waste is just one side of this modern eco-prefab home.

Sport prefab homes

Sport prefab homes from the Swedish group who brought us the prefab Barn House, are from the Pinc House Collection of prefab home. Sport prefab homes are a modern version of the classic sports cabin, offering a spacious open-plan interior and panoramic windows. Sport prefab homes are stylish prefab homes that looks like a modern Scandinavian bungalow & feature two models: Leisure and Residence, with sizes spanning from 20 to 160 sq meter. Sport prefab homes are light and airy with a stylish northern influence.

Prefab floating house boat

Prefab floating house boat is just for you If you’re tired of living in crowded urban centers with high real estate costs. Prefab floating house boat is a unique option for a permanent home, only this prefab house is designed to float. Located in Oldenburg, Germany, this modern prefab floating house boat, by Confused-Direction design label, is built from salvaged wood from an old farm house. The angular design of Prefab floating house boats are for floor-to-ceiling window that open up this small home to natural light and great views of its oceanic surroundings. These Prefab floating house boats come with grass roof on top, providing even more sustainability.

Prefab Dome space homes by Solaleya

Prefab Dome space homes by Solaleya present an alternative lifestyle within a circular prefab house, made entirely from wood, which has the ability to rotate with the sun. This prefab structure can rotate towards or away from the sun in order to balance inside temperature and reduce energy consumption of the prefab home while allowing to have a change of scenery. This unique wood dome shaped prefab home provides a balanced living environment while preserving the beauty of our Planet. Prefab Dome space homes by Solaleya is also highly resistant to extreme high winds and earthquakes. Building the Prefab Dome space homes by Solaleya takes only 3 months. From single family prefab domes to multi-dome communities, larger models can be used for prefab schools, prefab restaurants and prefab hotels while smaller models are ideal for prefab guest rooms & mini lofts etc…

Prefab Space box

Prefab Space box is a modular, light weight prefab building system, established following a Prefab student housing problem in Utrecht, in Netherlands. Each Prefab Space box is built up with five composite panels with a very smooth polyester exterior. Prefab Space box are finish with a unique structural angle allowing a vast window frame for maximum daylight. Prefab Space box are Suitable for semi-permanent and permanent housing solutions, these prefab homes are highly insulated as well as modular in nature, enabling horizontal or vertical combinations. These Prefab Space box are colorful, box-like units & offer a compact yet practical interior. Prefab Space box are perfect for on-campus housing, resorts, art studios etc. With fast production and assembly time, 10 units of Prefab Space box can be completed in a day.

Summer wood prefab studio homes

Summer wood prefab studio homes come with prefab kit designs, from Toronto-based Summerwood, and can be easily double as a Prefab home studio, Prefab workshop or Prefab home office space ect…. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Summer wood prefab studio homes come in many shapes and styles, also these prefab homes contain classic features like double French doors allowing plenty of light and fresh air. Summer wood prefab studio homes are estimated at $12,463.

Prefab Summer Homes by Glama-Kim Architects

Prefab Summer Homes by Glama-Kim Architects are Located in Stykkishólmur, Iceland, in Japan. Choices of material for constructing Prefab Summer Homes contrast with the unspoiled nature on site. Made up of two volumes, these Prefab Summer Homes include a large unit clad in western red cedar, which holds the sheltered entry, kitchen and dining/living room. Some Prefab Summer Homes are in corrugated aluminum, including the private functions, bedrooms and bathroom as well as a wooden veranda facing south. The interior of Prefab Summer Homes is birch plywood, painted gypsum board, on wooden frame, and oak flooring. Prefab Summer Homes by Glama-Kim Architects are an eco friendly choice and compliment there ambiance.

Interesting Prefab Homes

Prefab Homes are loved by all love for there brighter and open plan interiors, we like Prefab homes for there easy to assemble and cos they are prefab so they are flexible fix as well. Now Prefab homes are being considered to be the housing of our future, as it is stated that prefab homes are greener then our regular homes. So on what scale do we calculate how green our habitat is, and why are prefab homes greener then brick and concrete homes. All most all prefab homes differ in design but the idea behind all prefab homes is the same! PREFAB HOMES FOR A GREENER FUTURE.

Further, in this article we shall look at different prefab homes from all over the world.

Prefab Summer houses


Summer wood prefab studio houses


Prefab Space box


Dome space prefab homes by Solaleya


Prefab floating houseboat


Sport prefab home