Articles tagged as: michelle kauffman

Pre-Fab, Flat-Packing Architecture

TreeHugger’s affinity for flat-packable buildings — known also as prefab architecture, for its ability to be manufactured in one place and constructed in another — goes way beyond aesthetics, though we do thoroughly enjoy the modernity with which many of our favorites are designed. It’s also about supremely efficient use of materials, smarter way to [...]

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Flat Pack: A Green Design Philosophy

There are a few ways of designing our built environment that really make a lot of sense to TreeHugger, and flat pack is one of them. The idea is pretty simple: by designing objects that can be constructed or assembled and given shape, form and structure from essentially flat pieces, we can cut back on [...]

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