What is a foldable prefab house like?

foldable prefab houses are temporary or permanent buildings that adopt modular design and can be quickly unfolded, achieving efficient transportation and installation through folding structures. Its core features include:
1. Structure and Materials
Folding design: Adopting a light steel skeleton and sandwich panel enclosure, the wall and base are connected by high-strength galvanized hinges. After folding, the thickness can be reduced to 450mm for easy transportation.
Performance advantages: It has fire resistance (3 hours of fire resistance), earthquake resistance (level 8), wind resistance (level 12), and moisture and mold resistance capabilities. Some models have passed the American UL certification.
Environmentally friendly materials: Casita from Boxabla uses new environmentally friendly building materials that balance strength and sustainability.
2. Installation and transportation
Quick installation: Two people can complete the construction of a single room in 3 minutes, and three people can install 600 square meters per day.
Efficient transportation: After folding, a 17.5-meter truck can load 20, while a regular crane can transport 6.
3. Application scenarios
Temporary buildings: such as construction site dormitories and emergency housing, with supporting water and electricity facilities that can be installed and used immediately.
Permanent residence: such as the 37 square meter Casita where Musk resides, supporting stacked expansion space.
4. Representative products
Economy type: Twin wing expansion box house (about 800 yuan/set).
High end model: Boxabla Casita (fire-resistant and earthquake resistant, ready to use out of the box).
This type of house balances spatial flexibility and building quality through industrial production and folding technology, becoming an important innovative direction in modern architecture.