Mass Timber Modular Fire Replacement Homes

To meet the challenge of affordable, rapid, and sustainable rebuilding, the houses were designed to take full advantage of prefabrication. The houses were each designed around a modular wet core containing kitchen, bathroom, mechanical, and electrical systems. These cores could be fabricated off site then shipped in one piece, while Cross-Laminated Timber walls, floors, and roofs would arrive as flat-pack, pre-cut elements to be assembled around these central cores. This approach allowed the structures to be erected rapidly on site with only a few hands, and can be deployed at scale even when minimal local labor is available.