REFABSModular House Atelier
A pale stone house at the edge of a still lake at dusk

Modular House Atelier

A house composed around a life.

REFABS is a private atelier for modular houses: composed with you, made with the patience of the atelier, and placed on your land.

Begin a private brief The vision

I The vision

A home should be composed, not chosen from a catalogue.

A house is usually either drawn from nothing, far from the people who will live in it, or picked from a short list of types. Neither quite feels like yours.

REFABS joins the intimacy of a private commission with the discipline of the atelier: a house shaped around the way you live, made from elements crafted like fine objects.

Why we exist

II The composition

Every house begins as a few lines and a way of living.

Rooms, light and land are drawn together, then refined with you until the drawing could only belong to one life.

III Studies

Houses that listen to their land.

All studies

IV The commission

From a first conversation to a house that is unmistakably yours.

  1. The brief

    You tell us how you want to live: the land, the light, the rooms you return to and the ones you never use.

  2. Composed with you

    Your house takes shape in three dimensions and changes as you change your mind. Every decision stays visible, and yours.

  3. Atelier precision

    Each element is made in the atelier and finished to the standard of a fine interior, well before it reaches your land.

  4. Your house

    Brought to your site and set in place, the house arrives as it was composed, considered down to the last detail.

The commission, step by step

V The atelier

Born among makers, not catalogues.

REFABS was born inside a production atelier: a place of drawings, samples and finished surfaces. We bring that patience to the scale of a home.

Design and making sit side by side, so the house you compose and the house that is made remain one and the same idea.

Inside the atelier
A pale cubic house with deep-set windows among trees
A weathered-steel house with a light upper storey

VI Principles

  • Composed

    Every house begins from a person, never from a template.

  • Crafted

    Made with the patience of the atelier, element by element.

  • Personal

    A quiet, one-to-one process, from the first sketch to the keys.

— Begin

Your house begins with a conversation.

Start a private brief. Nothing is fixed until you say so.

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