Daniel Chenin is still a student at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, but his design for the PANEL house seems just right for cities. 

"The only thing we can predict," he writes, "is change."  It is that primary certainty in life that the homebuilding industry has ignored.   So his PANEL house offers a system of components that can be disassembled and reconfigured when the household changes.  "The modular components of the PANEL house are pieced together throughout its lifetime as the household evolves," he explains.  The post and beam construction allows for an infinite range in panel construction and material choice because the walls are not load-bearing. 

Chenin thinks this could be the beginning of a "plug and play" movement in buildings.

What a logical idea.  And what an interesting response to housing price inflation.

(Item from Las Vegas AIA Architecture magazine.)

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