Clever Folding Home Can Be Transported Anywhere & Unfolded in a Day - PREFAB HOUSE

Rohan and his team have designed a really clever folding prefab home that folds up origami-style to 1/3 of its size so that it can be transported anywhere (on trucks, trains, and planes) and then it can be put on a foundation, unfolded, and weatherproofed in just one day. Rohan's inspiration was a trip to a village in India where he saw the housing crisis and this got him thinking about how to get housing into remote communities, and that's where the folding idea came from. But it turns out that these folding houses can also be used in urban areas as laneway homes, backyard homes, and more!
These folding modular prefab homes are designed and built by Rohe Homes. You can follow and find out more about them here:
www.rohehomes.com/
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The homes are built with dimensional lumber, they're insulated with structurally insulated panels (SIPs), and they're finished with drywall on the interior and hardy board on the exterior. The wall panels can weigh ~1,000 pounds each so they use engineered hinges to unfold the house, and then they weatherproof the exterior seams using specialized membranes, gaskets, and tapes.
Rohe Homes makes a few different-sized models, including a small 530 square-foot home all the way up to a larger 1,050 square-foot home (which is actually just two of the smaller modules connected together). The homes can be purchased as lock-up-ready kits, or fully finished.
We loved collaborating with Rohe Homes on this video and learning more about their innovative design! Hope you did too :)
Thanks for watching!
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[@ExploringAlternatives]

Thanks for watching! You can find out more and follow Rohe Homes here:

[@stormthrush37]

Interesting idea but at $100-$200K these are out of the reach of an average person and appear to offer little practical advantages over traditional mobile homes other than maybe level of insulation. If they could figure out how to halve costs with scale of economy or other cost-saving measures then these might be a lot more interesting. Also the fact they require heavy machinery and construction personnel on site as well as lots of finishing tasks like wrapping and waterproofing really hurts.

[@FirstnameLastname-pe5ib]

Too much money for what you get UNLESS you're looking to move offgrid, where doing construction can get a lot more pricy.

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

IF they can offer these for the same price as cheap mobile homes, ($10,000-$20,000) then this could be a game changer. I eventually want a mobile gome on my land, so I've looked into the prices a lot, and the cost to transport an old mobile home is about as much as the value of the building itself 😂

[@treasurehunt7812]

If you keep repeating the word sustainable enough then people will come to believe it actually has meaning in this context.

[@rhondamastropoalo2237]

Sounded great until the price🤦🏼‍♀️! Definitely not affordable.

[@anoopch7004]

Lol housing crisis in India. It's Canada that has a housing crisis.😂

[@michael2275]

Starting at $235k + tax for 3 bed 2 bath 1050 sq ft with no finishes, no garage and no land. Not sure you're making much progress bud.

[@johnransom1146]

High price for a home that has to be finished inside AND outside, which they didn’t mention. Of course that excludes land costs and site preparation

[@DemzWonMusic]

Anything over 70k for that small one is too much

[@f42un84u]

Fully finished base model $200K CAD = $149,161 USD as of 1/2024. 530sq ft = $378 CAD/sq ft. Add $ for exterior siding, walkways, driveway, lights, HVAC system, water/sewer system, electrical hookup, landscaping, land, permits, labor, etc. Can start at $400K CAD. $756 CAD/sq. ft. Compare that to alternatives:-). Nothing new and innovative is cheap today.

[@Houseds]

It's amazing that the prefab house is very flexible and can be constructed quickly within a day. Very impressive, you have very professional construction techniques.

[@val_nightlily]

I saw folding buildings like this, only much simpler used by the military some years ago. I wondered then if it could be adapted to homes, and it's cool that it has been.

[@dnawormcastings]

Such a good idea how help people in need for a home in a hurry 🇳🇿

[@rolandtb3]

Like the flexibility of unfinished, using local contractors, fully completed. Currently 3 sizes to choose from.

[@951WoodworkDesigns-bx4kn]

I can see how these homes can be a positive and negative building process. The positive is that it’s basically built very similar to most conventional homes, but the structural (wood) components are built in a factory which should allow it to be built faster, cheaper, and provide a more consistent product. I can also see these homes being positive for places where maybe wood, various other materials, and labor are minimal. You also have less traffic carrying material and a labor force to the location which is helpful if it’s difficult to access. There is also the fact that the home can theoretically completed quicker, at least the main structure portion of the home, especially if everything needed to complete the final project is delivered on site at the same time. Finally, the cost to the consumer should be lower than a conventional house since the main structure is built in a factory assembly line.

[@BlackCatsandPumpkins]

Very interesting. I have always been fascinated with prefabs since reading about them in regards to WW2 (UK).

[@LesOubliesQuebec]

Thanks you we need more people like you

[@ahmadstore]

magic

[@metalhead2550]

This company is doing the same thing as Boxabl who seem to be further along the scale up path