Prefab homes

Set beside a tidal estuary in coastal Maine, the Cousins River Residence demonstrates how prefabricated construction can become a design driver rather than a constraint. Designed by OPAL Architecture and realised by GO Logic through a panelised building system, the house pairs architectural restraint with a high-performance envelope shaped by wood fibre insulation. The result is a contemporary home that...

Can I Build a Prefab House on a Slope? Short answer: yes — and in many cases, you probably should. Long answer: it depends less on how steep your land is, and more on how willing you are to stop treating flat ground as the default condition for building. Sloped sites have traditionally been framed as “difficult.” They cost more, take longer, and demand complicated foundations. But those...

Housing shortages are an issue across many advanced economies. In many major cities, demand continues to outstrip supply, while the political, environmental and fiscal costs of inaction rise. Yet the range of credible responses has narrowed. Expanding outward into agricultural land and natural habitats is not an option in an era of climate commitments, biodiversity loss and escalating infrastructure bills....

Imagine Stepping Into a House Designed by Apple Not a showroom or a technology demonstration, but a place designed for everyday use. Light is deliberately controlled. Technology is integrated rather than foregrounded. Interfaces are minimal and largely unobtrusive. The house reads as a unified system, not a sequence of individual rooms. At first, the idea may appear speculative. However, viewed in the...

It is an unusually cold morning in the centre of Alicante, Spain. A narrow street, more accustomed to scooters and pedestrians than heavy machinery, has just been closed to traffic. Here, within a dense and fully consolidated urban fabric, a tight, elongated plot awaits transformation. This is not a greenfield development, nor a suburban experiment. It is a between-party-walls single-family house, ground...

2025 has confirmed what had been taking shape for years: prefabricated housing in Europe has moved decisively into the mainstream. For a new generation of homeowners and developers, prefab is no longer an alternative, but a preferred way of building—valued for its design clarity, cost certainty, sustainability, and speed. This shift is clearly reflected in the numbers. Over the past year, Spassio...

Why prefabricated and industrialised construction can transform the way you plan, budget and build your own home The One Christmas Story Every Self-Builder Hears Every Christmas, in almost every family where someone is planning to build a house, the same story inevitably surfaces at the table. “Philip was told his house would cost €340,000… and it ended up costing more than €100,000...

When the Everland Hotel debuted at Expo.02 in Switzerland, it appeared not as a hospitality prototype but as an artwork—an inhabitable installation by Swiss artist duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann (L/B). Known for environments that merge sculpture and architecture, the pair created a one-room, fully functioning hotel suite that visitors could tour by day, sleep in at night, and relocate from site to...

Europe is home to more than 1,000 prefab house manufacturers, but finding the right one isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. Behind the glossy renders and futuristic promises lies a fragmented industry, shaped by regional traditions, sustainability goals, and evolving housing needs. In this analysis, we’ll break down how many prefab house manufacturers exist in Europe today—and what that means...