Why Prefab Architecture Could Be the Future - But Probably Won’t Be | Architectural Digest

[@RG-ii5be]

Dear A.D., please continue to produce history of architecture videos.

[@333who333]

Agreed! Fascinating video!

[@AlyssaMcKenna-v4w]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="865">14:25</a> fun fact: Moshe Safdie is the great uncle to the Safdie brothers Josh and Benny who wrote Uncut Gems

[@raderator]

Trailers and double-wides are extremely popular but architects don't care about the people who buy them. As an amateur architect, I have designed a very nice modern trailer for a family of five.

[@BD-qw2uq]

Trailers and other pre-fab homes are very popular in my country as well. I just hate that the people living in the manufactured homes have no way to leave, financially speaking. They spend as much in rent as they would for an apartment because they have to rent where they are parked. But they have to spend all of their own money maintaining the property and making repairs to homes that are almost always not built to last. Since moving the trailer homes costs a fortune and would result in most homes literally crumbling, renters have no choice but to stay where they are. When I lived in apartments, a rent hike meant that I at least had the choice to look for another place to rent. Here, with preconstructed trailer homes, folks just have to take it.

[@Jlrc13]

We have pre fab houses in the uk that were put up as cheap “temporary housing” in the 1940s during wartime and still going strong today as beloved family homes. Many have been insulated and extended and bear little resemblance to the original tin boxes. I suppose many people would think of prefab as something of the past, not a futuristic option.

[@teaganwebb2006]

This is a wonderful video but I think not talking about “comiblocks” and their impact was a mistake, they were the most popular form of pre fab housing and gave millions of people access to affordable housing even tho they where flawed.

[@Thim22Z7]

Yeah that's something I missed as well. I understand the video is mainly focused on America, but when I think of prefab construction I think of large prefab "Plattenbau" construction in places like East-Germany or the USSR.

[@bayardogonzalez6621]

McMansions abound all over the US and the only difference is that they aren't made in a warehouse.

[@88marome]

@bayardogonzalez6621 The trusses are made in a warehouse though

[@AnD-1999]

I agree... The Dutch have many prefab row houses or terraced houses depending on your English. I would say.. Google "prefab rijtjeshuis" de see what can be done... Nowadays many have the same basic structure with personal choice fronts... So it's not boring at all and there's so many... I think we should call it a success.

[@KJSvitko]

All homes should be built to accommodate the elderly and disabled. This will be better for everyone. Large wide doorways and hallways make using a cane, walker or wheel chair much easier. Bathrooms or wet rooms need to have flat floors and no shower hump or pan. A flat floor allows for easy access and drains need to provided. Easy to use lever door and faucet handles are easier for the elderly to grip and open. Main floors should include a master bedroom, restroom, shower, laundry and wide walk in closet with few steps to enter. Homes should be designed with aging in place in mind.

[@Progorama]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="994">16:34</a> Answer to the video title

[@5teffi3]

what a fantastic overview, thank you so much, very interesting

[@markielinhart]

I’ve have been a fan of prebuilt housing for many years, both as a builder and graphic designer. Even building houses based on standard material sizes is a step towards cost efficient construction. After all, that pile of off-cuts is a clients’ money. The fact that factory built structures aren’t weather dependant is a plus. Recently I watched a video where a dismountable factory can be erected in a locale and the house can be completely prebuilt on site so to speak including any metal roofing and sheeting. Talking of people not wanting the same style of dwelling as a downside to prebuilt as you were, in Australia we’re churning out hundreds of hip-roofed houses that all look the same, built far too close together and totally reliant on external cooling and heating methods even though there’s a ‘star rated’ standard. I could go on about about inefficient construction and yet… Great video, thank you✌️🇦🇺

[@cybernite60z98]

Great video loved learning about this

[@tarunifalconer]

Very comprehensive and interesting. Thank you.

[@randyignacio7538]

Fascinating video! Thanks for the education

[@sygad1]

Case Study #22, simply amazing

[@WarrenVeljanovski]

I wish this was a feature length documentary! I'd love more time to look in detail at some of the example buildings, and to go more in depth about the history and social/political influences on these build decisions. Feels like we got such a small taste of a fascinating subject here!

[@glennalexon1530]

It sounds like you're saying that the assembly line led to the development of gold-rush kit-homes, although the gold rush was fifty years earlier.

[@aliveli8650]

Wonderful video to learn some general knowledge about architecture! Thanks!!

[@motherkimm]

Absolutely

[@mikivli]

this reminds me of the homes that were sold by sears maybe it’s just an evolution of that as well

[@KJSvitko]

New homes should come with solar panels, a rain water collection system and an electric vehicle charger in the garage.

[@stickynorth]

And heat exchanger/pumps as standard...

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[@michaelfreeze2949]

What about pre fabricated concrete houses, In Darwin Australia a cyclone demolished the city in 1974 and after that every house had to be made of pre fabricated concrete in case another cyclone wipes out the city.

[@roblopez-yy3nd]

I think prefab homes are great! I’d be quite content in a Boxabl casita.

[@kalebjaxkarson]

😍😍I love

[@calebwilliamsmusician]

People would’ve been more open to these early prefab homes if they weren’t so unbelievably ugly.

[@777jones]

Pre fab is great, except for the gigantic factory cost, gigantic transportation cost, the need for assembly, etc 😂

[@mackes3683]

What do you think about the future of 3D printed homes?

[@DROSE2998]

can we make more videos regarding nyc mta stations I would watch every single videos

[@krismwangy]

kindly link the street view of Burnham Street in Milwaukee, great channel

[@stickynorth]

Not everyone wants the same type of house? Has this gentlemen never visited one of Middle America's countless HOA-controlled tract house developments? I don't think that's the reason at all... Try again

[@miriamzajfman4305]

We are currently building Prefab Homes in Canada for the homeless population as the winter dwellings 👍

[@saulgoodman2018]

California is doing the same. But they are paying $1 million per unit. For about 100 square feet. Someone is embezzling money.

[@TexasIsACountry]

@@saulgoodman2018fucking outrageous

[@miriamzajfman4305]

@@saulgoodman2018 The same thing is happening in Montreal

[@Saastapukki]

Cheaper to build, but those savings won't be passed on to the buyer.

[@saulgoodman2018]

NOPE

[@TheYvngling]

why cant we go back to building beautiful cathedrals and stuff like that :/

[@AmitGupta-lx4gu]

People get paid a lot now and they didn't when they were built. Also we have very few capable craftsmen. You wouldn't find enough masons

[@BalthasarCarduelis]

​@@AmitGupta-lx4guthe masonry isn't an issue at all. CNC routers can carve stone as precisely as designed. You also don't need to pay the CNC any wage. A bigger issue than labour, today, is fashion and ideology. You could build in any antecedent style with today's technology, but who is going to hire you to build it?

[@julesclaeskens4890]

I get it but we’re living in a modernizing world, if we start building like the beautiful cathedrals will we start driving with horse and carriage again too? Just something to think about…

[@b_uppy]

There is a movement bucking the stripped down modernist/contemporary trend in architecture. It is being warmly welcomed by the public tired of ugly, generic façades (this includes modernist architects whom typically and ironically chose the more interesting, traditional abodes for _themselves)._ We need to support the traditional, human scaled architecture. It supports local jobs, has sense of place, as well as innate beauty and interest.

[@karlkarlos3545]

What a stupid question. "Beautiful cathedrals and stuff like that" require demand. There is no more demand for cathedrals and palaces in this world, regardless of what conservatives want to make you believe. And they certainly would not pay for it either. What people need, though, are affordable houses.

[@HerrR-p7t]

Dog houses for the price of houses )

[@b_uppy]

Hard to improve on your statement. Very well summed up.

[@ericchen776]

Not everyone is as spoiled and materialistic as you

[@eugeneeugenee8185]

Wait till you see a pod for the price of house )

[@saulgoodman2018]

He thinks habitat in Montreal is beautiful? That is so ugly.

[@toddhensley880]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="884">14:44</a> what a jumbled mess.

[@saulgoodman2018]

YEAH

[@AnD-1999]

This video is nice but way to US orientated. The Dutch new builds are over 40% at least partly prefab. Not boring like before. My guess.. The zoning laws and building codes in the US are the most limiting facror for your idea it failed. I think you overlooked what could be possible... So please take a look at what's happening in the Netherlands. Almost all row houses are prefab nowadays. But also many others. You can even choose your own front of the house if you want...

[@b_uppy]

Prefab can _be more_ than "modernist reductionism." What you're showing as "ideal" is less so, and fails to resonate with most people, most of the time. Even modernist architects prefer to live in older style homes over their typical offering...

[@craigwapples4200]

So the trailer parks of the future lol

[@teamLewis44]

all houses here are so ugly

[@TinyGiraffes]

Prefabs don't get anywhere because they DON'T save money. We already build extremely efficiently.

[@lisadavis321]

How so? Site built homes are not built efficiently nor are they energy efficient!

[@sobeso]

so prefab is a pre...fad...

[@vaguegestures]

More IKEA Architecture.

[@thefunkykitty]

🤣

[@WhineNot]

AD used to have decent writing and essays. This piece is a quarter-inch deep. Prefab could but probably won’t be the future? What a weak stream angle.

[@avsystem3142]

Sure sounds like whining to me.

[@Cole_Cross]

This was all the information laid out for you to come to your own conclusion. guess that was too hard for you.

[@jensenraylight8011]

But, American really love their paper thin wall

[@saulgoodman2018]

Walls are not paper thin. Stop repeating that stupid lie.

[@TheMedjed-k9n]

⁠@@saulgoodman2018last time I visited it was true.

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[@saulgoodman2018]

@@TheMedjed-k9n No it is not.

[@AnD-1999]

No... It's not paper... It's veneer🤣

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

These architects are ruining our cities

[@Cole_Cross]

lol ok tony.

[@jessehurtado1222]

Disney/ Monsanto House of the Future should have been mentioned, my sugggestion