Site Specific and Factory Sound: Lake | Flato joins the prefab party with an adaptable, modernist take on modular housing.
A couple of years ago, the team at Lake | Flato Architects got together to brainstorm ideas to help weather the recession. Even with a long list of design awards and a 2004 AIA Firm Award on their resume, the respected San Antonio-based practice was feeling the sting of the slowed-down economy. Associate partner Bill Aylor says the firm had long had a fascination with prefab, and living and working in Texas, where modular sheds and barns were common in the rural locations Lake | Flato often worked, it seemed a natural fit. “During our internal investigations we decided that if we did modular we wanted the designs to accomplish three things,” says Aylor. “We wanted to keep costs down, create a design that could have both prefab and site-specific elements combined without compromising design quality, and maintain a sustainable approach.”
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