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The angular house with its brow jutting over the front entrance isn't birthed from the same blueprint as the older bungalows lining Northeast Ivy Street. And that's exactly the point.
Built in Method Homes'manufacturing facility in Ferndale, Wash., the prefabricated HOMB house -- the name resonated with the developers as a play on the word "home," it sounded warm and inviting, and the 100-square-foot modules resemble a honeycomb -- was craned into place last fall and placed on a site-built basement level. The "set," as that adventure is called, drew quite a crowd of onlookers, says Jeff Kovel, founder of Skylab Architecture, which partnered with Method Homes on the project.
Brian Abramson, co-founder of Method, called Kovel out of the blue back in 2010 and described to him the prefabricated line of products Method Homes had been working on, including a HOMB cabin. He and his partner, Mark Rylant, wanted to explore an urban series of prefabricated houses and wondered if Kovel might be interested in that.
