U-Build is a simple modular construction system designed by Studio Bark, which encourages individuals and communities to self-build. More about Studio Bark's flat-pack U-Build system lets anyone self-build
Indian architecture office Nudes has developed a concept for a secondary school in Malawi, with a modular wooden structure and curved walls made from straw bales. More about Stacked straw bales form walls for conceptual school in Malawi by Nudes
Architect Alejandro Soffia pieced together a series of modules and covered them in bright yellow corrugated panels to form this prefabricated woodland residence in Pucón, Chile. More about Prefab Yellow House by Alejandro Soffia contrasts Chilean landscape
Studio Lotus has designed the Mehrangarh Fort visitor centre in Jodhpur, India, using a system of interconnected and adaptable decks. More about Studio Lotus unveils design for visitor centre at 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort
House of Chickens, designed by architecture studio SO?, is a modular coop for 800 chickens on an artist's farm in Turkey. More about SO? builds modular House of Chickens on a farm in Turkey
Architecture studio Precht has developed a concept for modular housing where residents produce their own food in vertical farms. More about Precht's The Farmhouse concept combines modular homes with vertical farms
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series features a concept for a modular housing system that allows residents to easily add extra rooms around the outside of their homes. More about Modular housing system allows you to add rooms to your home
Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects and Dang + Partners have slotted together 2,000 modular wooden elements to create a porous white pavilion for tea farmers in rural Vietnam. More about Modular pavilion at Vietnamese tea farm made from 2,000 wooden crosses
Metropolitan Workshop's tower of small modular homes in London is covered in a "chameleon-style" facade of glazed terracotta that changes colour in the different light conditions. More about Metropolitan Workshop covers tower of modular homes with glazed ceramic tiles
Architect Carlo Ratti has worked with Indian non-profit WeRise to develop a system of low-cost housing with a prefabricated core that homeowners can build any structure they like on top of. More about Carlo Ratti develops Livingboard prefab housing system for rural India
Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. More about Kwong von Glinow designs Hong Kong high-rises containing multi-storey homes
The architect behind a splayed shipping container house in California has revealed plans for a Canadian lakeside residence, comprising a string of prefabricated modular units. More about Prefab house modules by James Whitaker link like a "daisy chain"
Vivahouse, a prefabricated modular housing system designed by Dara Huang of Design Haus Liberty to turn vacant commercial properties into co-living environments, has been unveiled at a disused shopping centre in London. More about Vivahouse modular home system turns empty commercial buildings into co-living spaces
Innovationen Tower, a 125-metre high tower formed of stacked precast concrete modules, has completed as part of an OMA-designed housing development in Stockholm. More about OMA's prefabricated concrete tower has "echoes of brutalist architecture"
Bjarke Ingels' architecture studio BIG has completed a modular apartment block called 79 & Park in Stockholm that looks like a verdant wooden hillside. More about BIG's prefabricated timber housing in Stockholm is designed to be "manmade hillside"
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. More about Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has stacked 29 recycled shipping containers to make a Starbucks coffee shop alongside a shopping centre in Hualien, Taiwan. More about Kengo Kuma stacks shipping containers to create drive-through Starbucks in Taiwan
Prefabricated housing startup Koto has launched a series of modular one- to four-bedroom cabins that can be customised with add-ons such as saunas and outdoor showers. More about Koto's flexible prefab cabins are designed for a Nordic lifestyle
Standard Architecture co-founders Silvia Kuhle and Jeffrey Allsbrook explain their proposal for a modular megastructure comprising pathways and vaulted pods in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More about Standard Architecture proposes modular megastructure "for any context"
Penda has designed a residential tower in Tel Aviv, with facades made of modular archways and terraces, which aims to complement the city's legacy of Bauhaus architecture. More about Penda unveils designs for Tel Aviv tower wrapped in modular arcades