What strikes me is that it's a very beautiful, modern house. It's a very interesting way to show that modern houses can incorporate energy savings and smart material use. Almost like going back to the idea of what modernism was intended to be–that is, very simple, straightforward, manufactured, potentially mass produced, available to everyone.

You can control the resources invested in construction and control the resources invested in fabrication–those are two huge advantages. The ability to significantly reduce the time period to produce the house on-site has a lot of implications in terms of reducing the impact of the actual construction phase on the neighborhood and the environment. Second, because the modules are prefabricated in a factory, Kappe was able to control the waste involved in the construction much more closely. This project claims a 10% waste factor which is incredibly small compared to conventional home construction.