Reimagining prefabricated housing for accessibility, comfort and premier design with Cabin | Stack | Prefab
Batulao, Philippines
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Cabin | Stack | Prefab is a prefabricated home design system composed of stacked and interlocking cabins. Leveraging our long experience of pioneering high-performance enclosure design with well-crafted residential design, our studio has developed a kit-of-parts for more efficient and affordable home assemblies that are both flexible and enduring.
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Cabin | Stack | Prefab designs include both 2-story and 3-story options, composed of high-performance exterior modular panels. The panels are expressively sophisticated and come in a variety of materials and colors, including vision glass with integrated louvers, insulated wood and metal.
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While standard opaque panels and fenestration layouts exist, including factory-made glass corners, many of the panels can be reconfigured before construction. This facilitates a tailor-to-fit capability to better match each homeowner’s particular lifestyle and each unique site with a tunable building envelope of distinction as well as optimized performance, day-lighting, shading and views.
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"One of architecture’s most pressing issues is to balance social equity with environmental sustainability. Cabin | Stack | Prefab offers a strategy to help achieve this critical goal with more affordable living on a smaller footprint."
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The prefabrication system ranges from interchangeable parts to interlocking and stacking cabins aimed to elevate the quality of living while also lowering costs and increasing sustainability through greater resource management.
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More About the Project
Project Team
- Cesar Pelli, FAIA, RIBA, JIA
- Rafael Pelli, FAIA, LEED AP ↗
- Craig Copeland, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C ↗
- Paulette Pascarella
Project Information
- Location: Batulao, Philippines
- Client: Revolution Precrafted
- Size: 990 – 1,800 sq. ft.
- Firm Role: Design Architect