Manufactured homes have typically had a negative connotation, but pre-fab homes, or at least homes built from pre-fab sections, are becoming very popular with designers worldwide, especially in places trying to address lack of new home building. They’re also finding their way into more designs for cabins and second homes. Easy-ish to transport to off-grid property, and, if they’re modular, all the better.
Like the Indigo, from a Dutch design company called Woonpioniers.
The owner gets a say in the design, unusual for a pre-fab home. Bigger, smaller, more additions, or fewer, the modularity allows for flexibility.
This edition, 861 square feet, boasts curved walls on the inside, for softness, with angular, squared-up lines on the exterior. The front and back of the house are glass, allowing the forest light to fill and pass through the structure. It’s on a small plot of land in Giethmen, a wooded rural area not far from the German border. A sculptor owns this one. She wanted a space that would allow her to relax, focus on her art, be refreshed by the light and shapes of the forest views washing through the shelter. Forest bathing, you might say, while indoors.
Photos: Woonpioniers
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Whether or not they are exported to the U.S., distributor and approximate cost would have made this article useful…
Agreed.
Best o could find: https://www.woonpioniers.nl/indigo-overview?lang=en
Not a lot of detail, seems like it might still be conceptual?
https://wowowhome.com/uncategorized/indigo-lia-prefab-cabins-by-woonpioniers/
I love this type of article. I’m not in the market for a cabin or house at the moment so I don’t need the details, and if I did, there’s enough information there to do some research.
Just enough information to get the imagination fired up. I’ll be day dreaming about a cabin all day … already sketching floor plans …
Isn’t that really what the Journal and the emails are all about anyway?
I have a 2k sqft house,but can’t stop looking at tiny houses. I love this. I would move in this tomorrow!! It’s perfect.
What more could you want?
Bren.
I am in my beginning stages of sketching my floor plan. Any suggestions on sites that are helpful in what materials I would need, etc? Just trying to get an estimate of how much it would cost me to build rather buy