classic scale and order of a Japanese tea-house, combined with advanced concepts and technologies. www.microcompacthome.com EcoSteel EcoSteel engineers and prefabricates eco-friendly homes nationwide. EcoSteels proven process uses hardened steel versus fibrous wood, utilizing pre-engineered, pre-cut, pre-drilled, and pre-marked structural beams and insulated steel wall and roof panels. Prefabrication allows home to be quickly and efficiently assembled on site with little to no construction waste. Working with your architect or one of our partner architects EcoSteel strives to turn your dream home into a reality with minimal impact to the environment.www.EcoSteel.com Toma House Toma Houses are prefabricated high-tech buildings shipped and installed world wide. In many instances, a building permit is not required as a Toma House has its own foundation system and can be disassembled and moved quickly. www.tomahouse.com HIVE Modular Housing FAVORITAS HIVE sells several models of contemporary modular homes with an emphasis on architectural design. Hive homes use a modular construction system, which provides a high level of quality control, minimizes exposure of building materials to the elements, and shortens construction time. Hive has currently two product lines that include a small, medium and large version of the basic model, any of which can be ordered with a flat or pitched roof, with modern or traditional siding and windows and with or without an attached garage. The on-staff architects can work with you to further customize your project for an additional fee. HIVE architects will also work with you to produce a completely custom, one-off design, based on their modular system for a standard architectural fee, usually 15% of construction costs. www.hivemodular.com LogicalHomes LogicalHomes, light+space resolved and Packaged Architecture are all a part of this company. I think the website has been under construction for a long time, but I read somewhere in a comment "no wood, no wood waste" so it should be interesting when we can see more from LogicalHomes.www.logicalhomes.com LoftCube - FAVORITAS Fully contained German modular homes designed to be air-lifted by helicoptor and placed on the rooftops of urban buildings. This site is all Flash and Quicktime, music and has good illustrations.www.loftcube.net IT HOUSE California architect Alan Kock calls this the "Mini Cooper of Homes", which can be put together in about 8 weeks of Bosch aluminum framing and insulated, double paned glass. Tallman Kock had different designers come up with patterned vinyl skins that they call 'outFITs' to put over some of the glass for a bit of privacy in fab this modular kit home. Wired Magazine called it the "Peel-a-Boo House". You can actually buy this $175,000 kit home online. www.tkithouse.com The Colorado House Off-grid homes like the Colorado House by Forsythe-Macallen promise to keep its inhabitants safe and comfortable even after a major storm. A tiny solar-powered house was custom designed. The second floor is an open kitchen, dining and living space. A sleeping loft of recycled and narrowly spaced Douglas fir slats creates a canopy over the dining table/woodstove - a massive, cast-in-place, concrete element which stores passive solar heat and heat radiated from the wood stove which is positioned underneath. The