Prefab home gets ground-up restoration

Modular housing may seem like a new trend, but a 1950s house under renovation shows just how long L.A. has dreamed of its potential.

Renovation of a 1950s manufactured house sounds like code for a tear-down. But Ben Thorne and Eliza Howard think differently, perhaps because their home is Los Angeles' best-known example of the modernist prefab houses by the General Panel Corp. If that moniker doesn't ring a bell, then the name of one of its architects might: Walter Gropius, founder of the legendary German design school, the Bauhaus.

Large Prefab Buildings

An appearence from 110 square meters single storey prefabricated building.

Advantage of Prefabricated Houses

1. Prefabricated houses are constructing more quickly according to the concrete houses.
2. Suitable for everything and everywhere.
3. You can dissassemble and assemble it everytime you want.
4. You can design and build every model you want.
5. Its very environmentalist.
6. Its more resistant against earthquake than concrete buildings.
7. Its more economical than concrete buildings.