FEBRUARY 17 - 26, 2012
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Prefab Showcase highlights the very latest in affordable prefab housing, along with solar technology and an expo tent where visitors can explore the latest ideas in eco-friendly trends, while maintaining the highest standards in sophisticated design aesthetics.

General Admission $5 • Open Daily • 575 N Palm Canyon Drive, one block north of Alejo.
Tickets are available at the entryway to the Showcase. Cash only.

LivingHomes

LivingHomes, a premier developer of modern, prefabricated homes that combine world class architecture with healthy and sustainable construction, debuts its newest, and most affordable LivingHome during Modernism Week, and you're invited to be among the first to see it! Designed in collaboration with Make It Right, the non-profit started by Brad Pitt and Bill McDonough, and sponsored by The Home Depot, The LivingHome C6 is the first Zero Energy, Zero Carbon production home to feature LEED® Platinum level environmental program and Cradle-to-Cradle® inspired materials. Built by Cavco in two months, it was installed in a day.

Solterra Builders

Solterra's projects are varied, encompassing all forms of modernism. Whatever the architectural type, Solterra always strives to push the limits of design, as well as to take advantage of opportunity found in projects to make them special and unique! They have over 100 years of combined experience in new construction and remodeling. Their team is innovative, passionate, and respectful of the environment. Solterra built the first LEED-Certified home in palm Springs.

Airform Construction Photos

A cabana has been built on site on the Prefab Showcase site by Douglas Stanton Architects to demonstrate the concrete sprayed balloon construction method, and can be used to build a house, a sports arena, or as in this case, a poolside cabana. This cabana will be donated to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission after Modernism Week, for their children's play area.


Hot Purple Energy

Hot Purple Energy (HPE) is a Renewable Energy System design and installation company serving both retrofit and new construction clients throughout Southern California. A full service general and solar contractor, HPE promotes the glance between efficient energy and consumption and aesthetically appropriate and economically beneficial clean energy production.

Hayman and Summers

Since arriving on El Paseo in Palm Desert in 2010, Hayman and Summers Outdoor Living has become the desert’s preeminent retailer of exclusive, luxury outdoor furniture and accessories.  The store’s unsurpassed inventory includes modernist, contemporary chic items from such elite brands as Dedon, Tuuci, Brown Jordan, Rausch, Jardin de Ville, and Les Jardins au Bout du Monde.

Prefab Showcase Sponsored by: Prefab Showcase Sponsors
     
The Home Depot