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Mobile Homes with Modern Architecture

A new mobile home has hit the market, called the iHouse. With design principles in the likeness of Frank Lloyd Wrights Usonian design style, this manufactured household is a new shift in the conceive of mobile homes. In 1936, when the United States was in the depths of an economic depression, Wright developed a series of houses he called Usonian across the USA. Wright hoped that household costs would be lowered by people structure their own Usonian houses. However, assembling the modular parts was complicated for most people to take on - most buyers hired pros to construct their Usonian houses. This process is very similar to how modular or manufactured homes are currently produced.

Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized the American household when he made more affordable Usonian houses with low horizontal lines and debatable interior spaces. Many of these features can be discovered in the sleek, modern design of Clayton´s new iHouse. Clayton is a renowned mobile home production company, and their new iHouse is pioneering conceive and efficiency towards the future of manufactured Housing. The iHouse sports a drenched modern, Usonian-like design and also integrates the latest in energy efficiency features into manufactured housing.

The Usonian homes were small, one-story structures disappointment on concrete slabs with piping for radiant heat beneath. The kitchens were incorporated into the living areas. Open car ports took the place of garages. These design elements have been commonplace in mobile Homes since their emergence in the 1950´s. The only missing element to mobile homes, found in a Wright design, was a modern style.

In his blog loving to the iHouse, Greenotter writes -- What I like about the house in general, there is minimal wasted space. The room sizes are efficient, honest, comfortable and functional.

Recently, Popular Mechanics magazine wrote about the iHouse in January declaring that the iHouse looks like a house you'd point from Ikea, sounds like something designed by Apple and consists of amenities that one would expect to come from a offbeat green business out of California selling to a high-end market.

The basic iHouse is 992 sq ft, though the design's blend of indoor and outdoor space makes it seem bigger. Final prices haven't been set, but Clayton hopes to deliver it for about $100,000. But the core unit can be expanded by adding additional rooms, in diverse configurations, to suit the buyer's specific needs.

Wright had envisioned Usonian homes to be affordable and easy to construct, which were the founding concepts of manufactured housing. For decades, Mobile Homes have been the most affordable housing available. Clayton´s new iHouse does come along with a substantial price tag, which has brought on some criticism. The banal answer is that the iHouse energy efficiency options give the owner of the mobile home substantial savings in energy costs.

Frank Lloyd Wright believed these stripped-down houses represented the constitutional ideals of the United States. This ideal had laid dormant, until now. With the growth of the iHouse Clayton has integrated Wright´s efficient and minimalistic spirit into the manufactured and modular housing market.

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Mobile Homes with Modern Architecture