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Craig Ellwood's third and final case study house—the Fields House, designed and built from 1956 to 1958—represents his most successful integration of industrial prefabrication with architectural design. The house's structure comprises 2"x2" hollow steel section columns on an 8' square grid, joined by 2"x5½" tube steel beams supporting the roof deck. This frame was prefabricated in 16' sections and shipped to the site; it was erected by four men in eight hours. The columns were designed with a universal jointing system which could accept all the house's different wall types (solid panels, fixed glass, windows, hinged and sliding doors) with no modifications. Ellwood's design doesn't attempt to hide the nature of its construction, and as a result, he is able to put the "fab" in "prefab."

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01 Erecting prefabricated steel framing
02 Inserting prefabricated wall panels

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01 Grid points (8'x8')‏
02 Public, private, and outdoor rooms

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02 Kitchen, looking out onto pool
01 Living room and hearth

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01 2"x2" tube steel columns, 2"x5½" tube steel roof beams

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01 Prefabricated 4'x8' wall panels and interlocking steel roof deck

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01 Wall detail with fixed glass panels

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01 Wall detail with resin-impregnated plywood panels

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02 Detail of corner condition
01 Detail of corner condition