When thinking of that dream home, we often think about going with a home design that fits our style, our feel, look and most importantly our homes family needs. From building a prefabricated home to one we may have someone design for us in the end we want our home to be one of the sharpest, best looking and coolest around.

While searching the web we came across some of the coolest homes ever built, These prefabricated homes may not be the biggest, may not be your cup of tea, but there is no doubt these are the Top 10 coolest prefabricated homes you may ever see.

#10 Prefabricated Weekend Retreat Home

Prefabricated Weekend Retreat Home

The finished home is little more than a room with a view. “It’s essentially a glass box,” Mr. Hranek said. The main room is 39 feet long and 24 feet wide and looks out through a wall of floor-to-ceiling glass toward a sloping field and barn. The open kitchen has Corian-topped counters with a dining area at one end and a living area at the other. The back contains a master bedroom and two small guest rooms. Reference









#9 Home In A Box

This prefabricated home is located in Tucson, Arizona and it was designed by Architect Rocio Romero and only took 12 weeks to complete. The home is owned by Mr. Aaron Jones and cost aproximatately $22,000 dollars which included the basic interior and exterior finish of this cool home. Reference

#8 Maison evolutiV Home

Maison evolutiV Home

With 70 square meters this cool home is made of two prefabricated modules perched one on top of the other. The designers pivoted the top unit to create a variety of interesting integrated outdoor spaces with indoor spaces.

What is gorgeous is that you can build your home from as many prefabricated modules as you want and make it as big as you want. Reference

#7 Arctic Houseboat Home

Arctic Houseboat Prefabricated Home

Winter shelter in the Arctic can take form in an upside down hunting boat – a traditional Inuit practice. Covey Island Boatworks, award winning builders of hand-crafted yachts, power and sailboats, has brought that idea into dry dock developing a prototype wood and epoxy prefab that applies boat building principles directly to an extreme Arctic home. Reference

#6 Homestead Steel Home

Homestead Steel Prefabricated Home

The Homestead House is a conceptual design for alternative housing that explores the potential use of a commercially available steel, prefabricated, modular, high strength, low cost, arch building system normally used for agricultural purposes. Its architect, Michael Jantzen was inspired by his experimental design work in the late 1960s as an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University and decided to re-examine this work. Reference

#5 Organic Prefabricated Home

Organic Prefabricated Home

At the last London Pecha Kucha event, Youmeheshe architects presented their small but tall ‘organic house’ — a wood pre-fab prototype that was Youmeheshe’s answer to a British-government challenge last year for architects to design an affordable house for under 60,000.

This bio-fueled, wood-clad house that “touches the ground lightly” has been used in Byron Park, Harrow, London, and a wood architecture competition. The design uses a kit of parts – for example a level could be a whole floor or a loft depending on the size of the household – to assemble a house floor-by-floor. Reference

#4 Con-house Home

Con-house Prefabricated Home

Limited areas and high priced real estates makes people think harder to compromise for an affordable dwelling place. The Con-house small house design from Trebnje, Slovenia is one of many examples that minimum spaces can be developed into sophisticated living space.

A compact prefabricated home made from containers is a simple answer for the declining livable space. A compact design made this home gained its notoriety, apart from its funky colored facade. Reference

#3 Dome House

Dome House Prefabricated Home

Dubbed the “habitat for the 21st century,” the Dome House is an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam (styrofoam). It might seem like an odd choice of material for a house, but the company lists a number of advantages that styrofoam has over traditional materials. Unlike wood and metal structures, for example, the styrofoam Dome House does not rust, rot or attract termites. It is also highly resistant to earthquakes and typhoons. In addition, the walls, which are treated with a flame retardant, emit no toxic fumes in a fire. Reference

#2 Butterfly Home

Butterfly Prefabricated Home

This eco-friendly prefabricated home is clad in locally harvested bamboo, and the material is woven using a traditional method on the front and rear facades that appears commonly in other homes and crafts done in the same area. The homes are prefabricated and assembled on site, adding to their sustainable appeal. The houses are raised off the ground, set on four foundations cast in old tires, eliminating the problem of excessive moisture and resulting rot. Reference

#1 Adex Eco-friendly Home

Adex Eco-friendly Prefabricated Home

An eco-friendly housing system ADEX is another self-sufficient pre fabricated housing that works out perfectly on an off-grid living. It has the ability to adopt its different site and eventually meets the changing needs of its surroundings. Made from an interlocking system of prefabricated pieces, the ADEX is easy to install anywhere and is capable of collecting renewable resources. The triangular pre-fab pieces are also easily disassembled by the time the owners are willing and ready to move to other places.

What makes this prefabricated housing a sustainable one includes a photovoltaic panels, solar heaters, rainwater storage, and greywater recycling. Aside from that, the system itself is also composed of recycled waste materials. Reference

So now you have it, really cool homes from some of the greatest manufactures of prefabricated designs in the world. This top 10 list is an assembly of the coolest prefabricated homes ever built.




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