To Wee or Not Too Wee
Alchemy Architects' weeHOUSE has created a traveling, special narrow 12' wide weeHouse as a touring companion to Saturn's new Sky convertible. The weeHouse is an integral part of their marketing campaign linking high-end cutting edge design with their automobile. The weeHouse came 100% complete, and features a special steel frame with forklift pockets and removable casters to allow the house to be easily handled by hand or forklift on standard flatbed trucks, thus significantly reducing shipping costs.
As you begin to tour the weeHouse website you’ll notice they offer a lot of different options, but the modern box design is the only choice. I personally think it would be interesting for Alchemy Architects to explore a more traditional, although equally simple, design. For example adding a simple pitched roof would probably result in a very cute building and open their homes up to more buyers. I can see how a pitched roof would reduce the number of ways modules could be combined and increase cost to ship and build, but there’s something about a pitched roof that says home.
Financing is also possible through lenders that understand the factory built prefab market. See the weeHouse website for more information. Photo credit Alchemy Architects.