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Another iT House Snaps together in the California Desert

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Designed for living lightly on the land, the iT House from Taalman Koch is a prefab erected in the desert lands of Pioneer Town, California.

7The design system utilizes a series of components prefabricated off-site.

Entirely constructed of lightweight aluminium and glass, this simple prefab snaps together in a trice.

Well, maybe not quite a trice! But certainly it is much faster. Prefabrication offsite definitely minimizes a building’s impact, which is especially helpful in undisturbed desert sites.

A prefab construction technique also ensures better control the construction waste, labor, and quality of the finished product.

Far out in the desert, solar panels and with battery storage provide the electricity.

The simplest possible easy living open plan of the iT House brings plentiful light into every space.

The floor plan creates room-sized glass units with plenty of sun and cross-ventilation for each aspect of the house.

The desert can get surprisingly cold at night. The thermal mass  of the polished concrete floor can ‘breathe in’ warm sunshine all day, and ‘breathe out’ at night.

Unlike many prefab companies, Talman Koch has succeeded in getting quite a few versions of this simple prefab erected at sites around California and elsewhere.