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Why Just Squeeze Two Homes Onto One Lot—When You Can Design Both to Feel Fun, Festive, and Spacious

Introducing the El Centro Courtyard Collection: A New Standard in Small-Lot Urban Luxury. “The consumer isn’t a moron. She’s your wife.”...

The Ideal BTR Unit Has Arrived, Wrapped in a Courtyard

Welcome to the NextGen Mobile Home Park , where high design meets practical living all within a standard 40' x 125' lot. Forget what you...

The Triplex Adapted To 50' X 70' Lots

From Empty to Enchanted: How Missing Middle Infill Revives the Mobile Home Lot In a sparsely populated mobile home park, a small...

The Triplex Singlewide: An Ideal Mobile Home Park Format

🚨 The Triplex Singlewide: A Modular Micro-Empire in 80 Feet 🚨 Here’s the vision: a singlewide home, split into 3 smart suites — one...

A Bold New Compact Singlewide That Lives Better Than A Rambling McMansion

Welcome to the NextGen Mobile Home Park , where a sleek, 75' x 16' singlewide redefines what smart, modern living looks like — all...

The NextGen DoubleWide Trailer Park

🚨 The NextGen DoubleWide is not your grandma’s trailer. This is the glow-up of the century — a high-design, high-function home built to...

The Precast Courtyard Condominium Duplex

Perhaps the best of all worlds for the homebuyer is plenty of house with lots of indoor outdoor living. And for the residential...

The 5 Bed 1 Bath Courtyard Mobile Home Subdivision

This design demonstrates the versatility of the NextGen courtyard based mobile home. A singlewide mobile home has 2 bedrooms each...

Has Bad Design Cost Manufactured Housing $6 Trillion ?

ChatGPT estimates that from 1975 to today around 40,000,000 single family homes were built. By 1975 the doublewide had come into its...

Duplex Deluxe: The Luxury Precast Riad

In the previous post a design for a precast concrete Riad was presented for lots of size 45' x 90'. While the Riad designed for this...

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Financial Analysis of Hypothetical 300 Unit Multi-family Value-Add Rehab

A Terrain-Adaptive Housing System Designed for Real Life

At its simplest, the Micro-Compound is a housing system designed to solve three persistent problems at once: affordability, adaptability, and land efficiency. It does so without architectural compromise—and now without being limited to flat sites. The system is fully engineered for lots with slopes of up to 10% , allowing deployment across the majority of residential land that conventional designs exclude. The Design Premise Most housing is designed for a single moment in lif

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Jan 143 min read

At 3 AM the only sound you’ll hear in your Micro-Compound… is rent paying your mortgage.

The most adaptable home ever engineered. When Frank Lloyd Wright angled living spaces to expand the mind, we listened.When Mies van der Rohe aligned glass walls with landscape, we listened.Then we asked a single question: What if intelligence in architecture wasn’t carved in stone…but transformed with life itself? So we designed two precision-built homes on one fee-simple lot , each with its own private courtyard, storage, and parking, and engineered them to sleep eleven

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Nov 29, 20252 min read

Why This 40' x 27' Courtyard Doublewide Beats Every “Missing Middle” ADU on the Block

If you’ve ever looked at backyard ADUs, “gentle density,” or Missing Middle zoning and thought, There has to be a smarter way, you’re right. This is that way. We call it the NextGen Courtyard Doublewide™ :a 40' x 27' modern Mies/Farnsworth–inspired home on a 70' x 45' lot that: Sleeps up to 7 people comfortably Uses less land per person than typical ADU-in-the-back schemes And can, in many cases, pay its own mortgage 1. The Living Room That Sells the Whole Idea Most doub

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Nov 17, 20255 min read

🚫 The Trailer Park Killer 🚫

Why the Micro-Compound is the Future of Manufactured Housing For decades, the phrase “trailer park” has been synonymous with stigma. Rows...

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Sep 6, 20253 min read

The $150K Villa: Why Rent an Apartment?

The $150K Villa That Makes Apartments Obsolete For decades, we’ve been told the same story: if you want affordability, you have to rent...

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Aug 21, 20253 min read

The DoubleWide SingleWide Courtyard Combo

1. Lot Geometry and Density Math We’re talking about a tiny lot : Lot size: 65’ × 78’ = 5,070 sq. ft. ≈ 0.116 acres Occupancy capacity:...

robert carpenter

Aug 20, 20252 min read

Reimagining the Singlewide: A Synthesis of Wright, Antiquity, and the Garden Square

The American housing crisis demands not merely cost-effective shelter, but a re-enchantment of affordable living, an architecture that...

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Jul 31, 20253 min read

Introducing the El Centro 40’ x 27’

“Don’t tell me it’s affordable. Show me it lives like a $2 million flat in Echo Park.” — David Ogilvy (if he sold homes in 2025)...

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Jul 15, 20252 min read

The Best ADU Ever Made? We Think So.

Let’s be honest: most ADUs feel like an afterthought. Bare-bones. Spartan. Cold. A box with plumbing. Not this one. Introducing the...

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Jul 13, 20251 min read

The El Centro Manufactured House / ADU Combo: Where Smart Design Meets Affordable Ownership

A major trend in urban design today is the splitting of oversized suburban lots to make room for additional housing—most often in the...

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Jul 10, 20252 min read

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Why Just Squeeze Two Homes Onto One Lot—When You Can Design Both to Feel Fun, Festive, and Spacious

The Ideal BTR Unit Has Arrived, Wrapped in a Courtyard

The Triplex Adapted To 50' X 70' Lots

The Triplex Singlewide: An Ideal Mobile Home Park Format

A Bold New Compact Singlewide That Lives Better Than A Rambling McMansion

The NextGen DoubleWide Trailer Park

The Precast Courtyard Condominium Duplex

The 5 Bed 1 Bath Courtyard Mobile Home Subdivision

Has Bad Design Cost Manufactured Housing $6 Trillion ?

Duplex Deluxe: The Luxury Precast Riad

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A Terrain-Adaptive Housing System Designed for Real Life

At 3 AM the only sound you’ll hear in your Micro-Compound… is rent paying your mortgage.

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🚫 The Trailer Park Killer 🚫

The $150K Villa: Why Rent an Apartment?

The DoubleWide SingleWide Courtyard Combo

Reimagining the Singlewide: A Synthesis of Wright, Antiquity, and the Garden Square

Introducing the El Centro 40’ x 27’

The Best ADU Ever Made? We Think So.

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