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Vancouver Aquarium Custom Prefab Building

Custom Prefab Building: Vancouver Aquarium

14' x 30' Vancouver Aquarium - Custom Ticket Building

Westcoast Outbuildings working under the oversight of MCM Architects and Stuart Olson Dominion Construction, supplied and installed two custom prefab buildings for the Vancouver Aquarium.

The Need: The Vancouver Aquariums is currently undergoing a $25 million dollar face-lift. As part of that re-design they required a temporary Ticket Building. That buildings would need to be able to process over 1 million customer transactions a year. The prefab building needed to be a custom design with 6 standard ticket windows and two wheelchair accessible ones.

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Prefab Laneway Houses – 12’x24′ Modern-Shed

Laneway House - Modern-Shed Guesthouse Prefab Shed

Prefab Modern-Shed Guesthouse / Laneway House

Prefab Laneway House:

Hidden away in a suburban Seattle Washington backyard is this beautiful Modern-Shed 12′ x 24′ prefab Guesthouse.

Designed as a place for visitors to rest their travel weary bones this Guesthouse concept could easily be adapted as a Laneway House for the Vancouver marketplace.

Typically the Vancouver Laneway House market is filled with a lot of rather expensive building options. Buildings in the $250K-400K are certainly not unheard of if not the norm these days.

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Cottage Kit: Modern-Shed Coastal Design

Cottage Kit:

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Modern-Shed Prefab Cabin Kit

With a Cottage Kit by Modern-Shed converting an unused patch of land into a luxurious Backyard Cottage is easier than you might think.

First the client had chosen the style and type of cottage kit they wanted. They were referred by Modern-Shed to a local construction company to handle the installation on Whidbey Island in Washington Stat’s Puget Sound

Highly versed with Modern-Shed Cottage Kit installation the construction company conducted a site visit to familiarize themselves with the location and site conditions. A couple of days later they then followed up with a quote to assemble the Modern-Shed Cottage Kit.

The total installation took only 7 days and included foundation prep, complete assembly. The installation also included a new electrical feed with sub-panel originating from the houses many electrical panel.

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Cabin Kit: 10′ x 12′ Forest Getaway

Modern-Shed Cabin Kit:

Modern-Shed Cabin KitNustled in the forest of the Pacific Northwest this beautiful 10 x 12′ Cabin Kit makes the perfect weekend getaway Complete with a raised foundation and porch and backed by beautiful organic garden beds. Read more ›



Kelowna Shed: 8′ x 10′ Lakeside Storage

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Kelowna Shed: Lakeside Storage Shed

A Kelowna developer needed a storage shed for his lakeside property and the tender was put out. But not just any shed, he needed a shed to match the architecturally designed look and feel of his house.

The Modern-Shed would act as a Storage Shed for a 17,000 Sq/Ft,  $15 million dollar house under construction.

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Types of Prefab Houses

Pre-Fab Houses

Pre-Fab Houses

“Pre-Fab Houses” is an umbrella term that covers manufactured and modular homes.

Manufactured Homes (previously known as mobile homes) are built on nonremovable steel frames, known as chassis. The chassis are used for transporting the homes and for permanent support. Manufactured homes are built according to Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) and can be placed on permanent foundations, at which point they can be considered real estate. They typically are considered a low-cost alternative to regular construction because of their assembly line construction.

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