Daniel Libeskind, architect renowned for his designs at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Denver Art Musuem and the World Trade Center site in New York, has taken on a new project. He is designing bold and exciting pre-fabricated housing with the dramatic angles of a prism. While most architects working on pre-fabricated housing have used small footprints and conservative budgets in order to make their designs easy to mass produce, Libeskind has taken a different approach. He has created a 5,500-square-foot, two-story villa which can be shipped and assembled anywhere. It includes luxuries like a solar thermal system, 12 foot-tall rain shower, a fireplace room, a wine cellar and a sauna in the basement. The homes will cost $2.8 million to $4.2 million, depending on the destination. Buyers of these homes will be promised regional exclusivity to ensure that they will be the only ones in their neighborhood with the design.
“Too often we celebrate great civic institutions,” Mr. Libeskind continued, “but actually architecture is how people live and how well they live.” The house is built of wood construction and clad in aluminum with zinc accent strips that the buyer can specify from 2 color options. For finishings, buyers can choose between a highly stylized, Libeskind interior, or the “casual style,” which showcases warmer finishes like parquet floors and softer lighting.
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