FlatPak House

01/11/2012

The Hart "Peek-a-Boo" Cabin was just featured in Twin Cities Metro - great article! There are more photos in the print edition if you can get your hands on one.

12/17/2011

Photo by [email protected]

Soon to be published, the Peek-a-Boo Cabin is the latest custom house completed by Lazor Office (the FlatPak house peeps). The cabin is up off the ground to leave the land as is and put you up in the trees with an elevated view of the lake below. The house is like a giant porch with little boxes, [the private spaces] set between a roof and floor with S/M/L gaps between. This open and close sequence frames peaks of the world outside. Light and shadow are part of this wandering, discovery around the corner kind of place. The owner and his family tell us “life in the gap” is pretty cool. There’s a get away gap with a desk, open air covered gaps to watch summer rain storms, a gap for outdoor showers and a big gap for everyone to hang out in, cook and drink Leinenkugels (the local beer, lemon wedge required). In the bedrooms, the world is viewed through deep window boxes, a tight framed view, like a medieval castle window. This creates a strong sense of privacy and coziness.

Materials are Cypress, both smooth and rough sawn, birch plywood and glass. Space and materials that are just enough and not more than needed.

12/13/2011

Charlie Lazor answers a few questions from the group at MoCo Loco - see what has to say....

MoCoLoco is a web magazine dedicated to everything related to modern contemporary design and architecture

11/29/2011

If you didn't already catch it in this month's issue of Dwell...check it out. Is it time to start planning for your summer getaway?

Prefab construction simplified the building process of this northern Wisconsin summer home, where all materials required ferrying across Lake Superior.

11/29/2011

Photos by www.JustinMHamel.com

Just in - photos taken of Jowey's FlatPak on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Rumors are Snookie has her eyes on this little gem, but only after the siding is swapped out for some pink velour.
Photos by www.JustinMHamel.com

10/06/2011

Cool new article on FlatPak House....

The guide to applications, sources, and trends.

09/16/2011

07/26/2011

The Week'nder gets some attention! Thanks Jetson Green!

07/11/2011

Photo by www.heinrichphotography.com

The latest prefab concept from the FlatPak studio – the Week’nder. Yup, a get away house to the great outdoors. The first Week’nder was installed on beautiful Madeline Island in Lake Superior this past July 2010. It made the ferry journey and upon landing at the terminal, the Week’nder was greeted by the Islanders with great interest and questions such as, “what the hell is that?” We replied, “it’s a modern prefab house concept.” That was met with “oh” and a long silence.

We think its pretty cool and yes, this concept is in place and it can be yours. Let us know if you are interested.

05/26/2011

Spring has finally sprung! The FlatPak at the Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden is now open to the public on the weekends. Pop in for a visit!

This past Saturday, May 21, the FlatPak House, designed by Minneapolis-based Lazor Office, re-opened to the public offering familiar features and a few new tricks. On Saturdays from 10 am–4 pm and Sundays from 12 noon–4 pm you can stop by the house and use it as the hippest visitor center in the cit

05/11/2011

Recently announced, FlatPak was chosen for an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. - see what it's all about.

House & Home, a five-year exhibition presented by the National

05/03/2011

The Desert Boulder House is a custom house by Lazor Office in 1997.
The house is a loose organization of private spaces rendered in heavy stucco forms and the public use spaces that lie between them. Retractable floor to ceiling glass opens these public spaces to the Sonoran desert and mountains beyond, transforming the house into an expansive, wandering open air porch which blurs one’s sense of where the house ends and the desert begins.
The house feels more like a man made landscape than an identifiable “house.” The field of enormous boulders that the house sits within was the originating inspiration and organizing principal for the dwelling. The spaces between these enormous boulders are very cool and very pleasant to hang out in. They make you feel secure and protected while in the big outdoor space of the desert as they simultaneously frame, or bracket, the expansive desert into specific, manageable views. Add a roof for shade and you have an ideal desert hang out.
This one has an ice maker. Most excellent.