Prefabricated Steel House

The new Ruukki Steel House should be an innovative, cutting-edge product which introduces new qualities, concepts and possibilities to the market. The RSH should have a unique and identifiable design which appeals to the critical urban consumers. The design should also be understandable and friendly. Even a contemporary cutting-edge house has to look and feel like a home. Nobody wants to buy a house which looks weird.

The unique strengths of steel in small-scale construction should be utilised to create a successful house product. Light structures and long spans enabled by steel are ways to go beyond the standard traditional house. Intelligent prefabrication and mass-production strategies will really bring out the benefits of steel.

Steel building components are well adapted to mass-produced room elements. The elements are precise, withstand transportation, are light and easy to assemble together to form a house. The houses should offer true possibilities for client customisation for a very competitive price. This can be achieved by designing a catalogue of compatible room elements.

This catalogue of prefabricated rooms should provide possibilities for combinations according to different sites and desired house sizes. Combining the elements could enable the customer to create their preferred house configuration- without having to design the entire house by themselves.