13 November 2009 | LEED Platinum, Offsite Fabrication, Residential
Check out this timelapse video from the Orange County Register, published Nov 5th, documenting the Newport Beach, CA installation of the house we designed for LivingHomes. Who says you can't build a house in a day?
6 November 2009 | LEED Platinum, Media Coverage, Offsite Fabrication, Residential, Sustainable
The first residential installation of the home we designed for LivingHomes®, a premier developer of modern, sustainable, prefabricated homes, took place Nov 5th in Newport Beach, California. Footage of the installation is available online.
3 September 2009 | Materials, Media Coverage, Offsite Fabrication, Residential
Cellophane House is featured on the award-winning original documentary series from the Sundance Channel, Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Episode 5, airing Tuesday evenings this fall. The series focuses on environmental topics with interviews with forward-thinking designers and features on green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. Visit the series website for show times, or go to iTunes to download the full episode.
12 January 2009 | Announcements, Offsite Fabrication, Residential
KieranTimberlake has teamed up with LivingHomes, Profile Structures, and Color Design Art to create a modular show home for Builder magazine. The home will be on display at the 2009 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, January 20-23. You can take a virtual tour of the project on the Builder website.
Boyce Thompson, Builder magazine's editorial director, writes:
Next week, four semi-trailers will leave a factory in Southern California carrying the modules and panels that make up our show home for this year's International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. The convoy will idle across the street in a parking lot, waiting for the convention floor to open for exhibitors. Then, when the doors roll up at 12:01 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, crews will race the components to the floor and begin a mad, five-day race to ready the home for visitors.
If you are going to the IBS this year, check out the Builder LivingHome. We've been working for more than a year on this super-sustainable "mod" home. The experience of navigating the nascent modular industry to line up a builder, an architect, a factory, and suppliers is an interesting story in itself. But it is sure to be eclipsed by the home itself, which speaks volumes about the trends that are likely to preoccupy builders for the next several decades. Continue reading...
3 December 2008 | Materials, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
In an earlier post we described the initial stages of the Cellophane House disassembly. Since then, we have successfully lowered all of the chunks to the ground and have been disassembling and organizing the parts from each chunk in preparation for loading onto flatbed trucks. Jason Niebish and Elizabeth Kahley have been on site overseeing the disassembly effort for KieranTimberlake. They have collectively labeled the parts, transferred gussets from cardboard boxes to plastic crates and palletized parts in preparation for fork lifting to flatbed trucks.