How is there growth for green prefab homes?
Glossy home magazines once celebrated the rise of modern prefab architecture with its clean lines and green materials. Then the housing market crashed. But green prefab isn’t dead. Sam Eaton reports. —— TEXT OF STORY STEVE CHIOTAKIS: During the peak of the housing boom, glossy home magazines like Dwell celebrated the rise of modern prefab architecture. These factory built homes with clean lines and green materials promised to reshape the building industry. That is until the housing market crashed. But that doesn’t mean green prefab is dead. From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, here’s Sam Eaton. SAM EATON: Architect Leo Marmol realized his dream in this sprawling warehouse south of downtown Los Angeles. To build modern prefab homes on a factory assembly line. LEO MARMOL: The steel frames themselves were put together outside on those large jigs and then literally slid into the factory to roll down this track assembly on the factory floor. Marmol says the manufacturing process re
