Archinect - News 2024-05-03T05:19:05-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/141782005/regarding-the-remarkable-range-of-prefab-self-built-movable-and-vernacular-dwellings Regarding the remarkable range of prefab, self-built, movable, and vernacular dwellings Nam Henderson 2015-11-24T01:59:00-05:00 >2015-11-27T14:25:51-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6u/6ua2e1jr0f567yp3.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Prefab housing plays a big role in recreational dwelling, aside from permanent and work-nomadic forms. This is well illustrated by the thriving KOA (Kampgrounds of America) site I pass on the way into town. KOA, founded in 1962, has 500 sites around US&#8202;&mdash;&#8202;an alternate housing archipelago experienced by millions of vacationing Americans, and the world&rsquo;s largest private campsite chain.</p></em><br /><br /><p><a href="https://twitter.com/tmccormick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tim McCormick</a>&nbsp;(Founder at&nbsp;<a href="http://houslets.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Houslets</a>&nbsp;a modular, redeployable, user-buildable, live/work-spaces&nbsp;project), takes readers on a&nbsp;prefab housing tour of Willits, CA.&nbsp;</p><p>h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/AlJavieera" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@AlJavieera</a><a href="https://twitter.com/AlJavieera" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">&nbsp;</a></p>