Prefabricated Timber Houses

Open Roof House: Sustainable Wood Architecture with Style

This open roof house by French architects Djuric Tardio is an unassuming sustainable structure that's warm, woody and welcoming - here's the tour! The eco house design is prefabricated of sustainably managed timber (Finnish larch panels) and assembled on-site in only two weeks. Large windows flood interiors with natural daylight while helping to passively heat the place during the cold months. But, when the weather is warm, this home is a hotspot for nature-lovers, with outdoor entertaining areas like a ... Continue >

Passive House Plans – Swedish Eco Home

As far as passive house plans go, this one by Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky just makes sense. People and household appliances exert lots of energy. Rather than having it go up in smoke, so to speak, this eco house design uses it. In fact, the annual energy consumption for heating this sustainable architectural design is estimated at just 25 kWh/m2. This passive solar home also boasts roof-mounted solar panels, is made from sustainable materials, and because it’s a prefabricated timber ... Continue >

Also See: Eco House Designs, Passive Solar Homes, Prefabricated Timber Houses, Sustainable Architectural Design, Sweden Architects

Energy Producing Homes – House by IAAC, Fab Lab House

Energy producing homes are growing in numbers, and with rising energy costs and ever-mounting concerns for the environment, we can see why. But Fab Lab House by IAAC blends sustainable features with creature comforts and extraordinary aesthetics, so it’s three for three by our count! This off-the-grid house actually produces more energy than it consumes – a structure using readily accessible materials that was designed to be applied anywhere in the world. This timber house plan is constructed using laser-cut ... Continue >

Also See: Prefabricated Timber Houses, Raised House Plans, Solar Houses, Sustainable Houses, Timber Houses, Wooden Prefab Houses

Prefab Country Homes - Cedar Home Design in Norfolk, UK

Fusing nature’s simplest pleasures with modern technology, the prefab Cedar House by Hudson Architects was designed to blend with its Norfolk, UK surroundings, while at the same time standing out for its innovative design. From the inside out, this fabulous country home screams “nature!” through and through. This modern prefab design is clad in 15,000 natural cedar shingles (roof and all!) and wrapped in wide windows that welcome the view. Outside the four-by-two-meter windows and expansive glazed doors that open ... Continue >

Also See: Cedar Clad House, Countryside Homes, Hudson Architects, Innovative Houses, Prefabricated Timber Houses

Curved Roof House Plan makes a Stylish Eco Statement

When architect Adrian James designed this curved roof house - Muswell House - in Piddington, Oxfordshire of the UK, it’s as though he was in a race to incorporate as many innovative technologies, methods and looks as humanly possible. Thus unusual house features an innovative steel structural frame, topped by a distinctively curved, prefab timber roof which extends all the way to the ground. This all-encompassing wooden roof creates a characteristic look from the outside, while the open concept house ... Continue >

Also See: Curved Roof Houses, Open Concept House Plans, Prefabricated Timber Houses, Wooden Prefab Houses

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