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Radical Re-Housing: Paul Preissner and Independent Architecture Reimagine the Low-Cost Home

Frequent collaborators Paul Preissner Architects and Independent Architecture (previously Indie Architecture) adapted a steel arch building system, commonly used for agricultural and industrial buildings, to make small lot houses and row houses. By reconfiguring the standard panels, each house is given a unique and playful form—a rare feature of low-cost housing. Unlike a modern kit-of-parts strategy, where a house is customized by arranging panels within a modular frame, these houses are customized by assembling panels in various sequences to make unique profiles. Significantly, because the panels are mass-produced in existing factories across the U.S., costs typically associated with manufactured housing are avoided. Using this method, the architects were able to cut the average cost per square foot by almost 50%. Paul Preissner Architects and Independent Architecture are working with students at the School of Architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago to design a kiosk to be shown at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial this October before being permanently installed on the city’s lakefront. 

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