Jared Levy and Gordon Stott, formerly of Marmol Radziner Prefab, recently launched a new company that hopes to solve the endemic problem of prefab to date: price. They knew how to make beautiful, sustainable prefab. But now, with their patent-pending technology, which allows them to build modules to a whopping 95% complete at the factory, and ship them like shipping containers by rail, sea, or truck, Connect:Homes has figured out how to provide the same level of modern style at an all-inclusive price of $145/sf out of the factory. That’s all inclusive with no surprises. More images and architects’ description after the break.
In a first for the prefab industry, the company will manufacture modern, green, and affordable prefab homes from a single California-based factory and ship these homes to national and international markets using a patent-‐pending modular system. Levy and Stott were instrumental in the design and development of the modern prefab business and worked on the design and manufacture of close to 40,000 sf of some of the most innovative homes ever to come out of a factory, including the first prefab home to be published in Architectural Digest. They became increasingly frustrated with the state of the current prefab marketplace and left to design a modular system that solved longstanding logistical limitations endemic to the modular industry: namely high delivery costs and home affordability.
