The Spanish company says its glassy, steel-framed homes start at around $300 per square foot.
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Architects Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano-Lasso would get the same question from their clients time and again. Not with regards to design elements, but with pricing: what was their home going to cost? Because traditional construction makes a total hard to predict with complete accuracy, the duo founded a prefab company in 2019, Tini Living, which offers six models that can be arranged in different ways to create bespoke homes. And the pricing is all up front.
Now, the company is shipping its homes to the U.S. Their latest project, in Segovia, Spain, actually bridges the gap between Europe and the States by referencing Los Angeles’s Case Study Houses. It combines several units to form an elongated, steel-framed plan that’s inspired by California modernism.
“Our philosophy has always been clear: true luxury is not about grand gestures, but about quiet, essential presence,” says de la Vega. “A home should embrace, not interrupt. Every Tini project reflects this ethos with pure lines, noble materials, fluid transitions between inside and out, and a process that’s as transparent as it is livable.” Here’s how Tini Living says it plans to deliver on that promise.
“After years of developing bespoke projects with our industrialized construction system, we have poured everything we’ve learned into a series of carefully designed, optimized, and replicable houses,” says architect Ignacio de la Vega. The first Case Study–inspired home from Tini Living is located in Segovia, Spain.
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What qualities make your prefab designs stand apart from others?
We believe that designing a home means designing a way of living. At Tini Living, we don’t offer products, we offer a way of making architecture with honesty, permanence, and purpose. After years of developing bespoke projects with our industrialized building system, we have distilled everything we’ve learned into a series of optimized, replicable homes.
The property is surrounded by mature oaks and red-earth ravines, and de la Vega and Cano-Lasso wanted the home to reflect that. The 1,830-square-foot structure was built in a factory and the walls were whitewashed on-site.
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We believe these houses are designed to the highest architectural standards—far from traditional prefab catalogs, and close in spirit to the Case Study Houses. Each model is conceived as a “case study” that’s proportioned, oriented, and connected to the landscape. This approach offers access to thoughtful architecture through a fast, technically supported process.
Lastly, we’ve developed our own industrial method based on a steel frame, building information modeling (BIM), full in-factory manufacturing, and total cost control, and we work with high-quality local materials and advanced insulation systems to ensure maximum energy efficiency.
“Oak and cork flooring add warmth, texture, and a sense of calm,” de la Vega says.
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See the full story on Dwell.com: Tini Living Is Bringing Its Sleek Prefabs to the USA
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