To solve one of the biggest challenges to prefab—the fact that 3D home parts are big and bulky and subject to height and width restrictions that limit shipping long distances—BluHomes has developed a folding technology for its “Breezehome.” This is no drafty mobile home. Maura McCarthy, the innovator behind BluHomes, has set her sights on creating only net-zero homes with building envelopes built to super-efficient tolerances, as only modular can, and a few other innovations that might help BluHomes become the Ikea of housing:
One of the patents is for a consumer-facing technology that allows buyers to design a home in 3D online, which feeds into the back-end component to determine the folding technology necessary to break the house down for optimal shipping.