Platinum Winner of the International Architecture & Design Awards 2025

Smart Manufacturing - Floating House Module with Straw Bale Panel

Architecture

Mobile Homes & Prefabricated Structures

Concept / Professional Category

Architect / Designer:

Jie Lai

Design Team:

Jie Lai, individual designer

Country:

United States

Digital technologies supporting the mass-customized design and production of buildings will be needed to address these pressing demands. The project will explore the future of integrated live-work hubs by designing a smart factory for manufactured buildings and an associated mixed-use neighborhood developed through the building methods of the factory. It will re-imagine manufacturing processes with modular straw bale panel design to provide sustainable, clean, safe, rapidly deployable production, and using advanced technology.