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| May 01, 2006 | Drueding, Meghan | COPYRIGHT 2006 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

They came for the house tours and the rotating deejays. They came for the 100-plus exhibitors, including furniture makers, interior designers, and architects. But the 7,500 people who attended CA Boom 3 in March also came, in large part, to learn more about prefabricated housing. The Santa Monica, Calif., design event's "fabprefab zone" was a show within a show of 10 companies (many of them architect-led) that produce and sell prefab homes.

Put together by CA Boom organizer Charles Trotter and fabprefab.com founder, publisher, and editor Michael Sylvester, the zone highlighted various approaches to solving the prefab puzzle. Venice, Calif., architect Whitney Sander's Hybrid House, for example, borrows pre-engineered steel building technology from the warehouse manufacturing industry and mixes it with traditional site-based finish work. Marmol Radziner Prefab, a venture by L.A. architecture and construction firm Marmol Radziner ...

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