LivingHomes

LivingHomes®, a premier developer of modern, sustainably designed, prefabricated homes, is announcing a new collaborative relationship with Philadelphia-based architecture firm KieranTimberlake.

KieranTimberlake is a nationally recognized firm known for its research, innovation, and inventive design. Over the past two decades, they have designed beautifully crafted, thoughtfully made buildings which are holistically integrated to site, program and people.  Kieran and Timberlake’s book, refabricating Architecture, investigates how transfer processes from aerospace, auto and shipbuilding manufacturers are poised to transform architecture.

 “We’re very excited to be working with KieranTimberlake,” says LivingHomes Founder and CEO Steve Glenn.  “Our collective prefabrication experience allowed us to design a completely new kind of building system, one that will allow us to make our homes faster, with less cost and a smaller ecological footprint.  In addition to lower cost single family LivingHomes designed by KieranTimberlake, we’re introducing our first multi-family homes, which allows us to better serve the urban infill market.  With these homes, we begin to fulfill our mission to make our homes affordable and accessible to people around the country and world.”

Combining their respective expertise and knowledge, LivingHomes and KieranTimberlake have developed the LivingHomes Building System, a proprietary platform that combines modules for kitchens, baths and utility cores, and ”Smart Panels™”, that integrate mechanical ducting, electrical and plumbing.  With complexity and cost concentrated in particular panels and modules, this flexible building system allows for high-volume fabrication, assemble and easier transportation. “We see the LBS as an important tool and a great opportunity to make quality, environmentally responsible design available to more people,” explains Steve Kieran, Partner at KieranTimberlake. Each home is virtually constructed using high-tech parametric modeling software before anything is actually physically built either at the site or at the factory.  The virtual assembly process even further reduces construction waste and allows the design team to map out the construction process in precise detail.  “James Timberlake and I have long argued that there is a pandemic lack of productivity and quality control in the design and construction industry today,” said Kieran.  “With this belief structure, we see working with LivingHomes as an exceptional and welcome opportunity to bring a new level of quality, productivity, affordability, and sustainability to housing development.