Have some land on Golden Pond? Consider shipping in the mini prefab house by Carre d’Etoiles

Designed for the vacationer seeking a retreat house with a smaller footprint, this environmentally conscious cabin with telescope and transparent viewing dome might be just the thing to bring you back to earth (ironically, while looking at the heavens).

Similar ideas in Taking Form In Forrest, Come Fly With Me, and Lost River Cabin.

The simple but modern vacation house may turn out to be a fairly popular niche for architects losing ground to the housing crisis, and while still early these are already promising designs geared for the economically minded vacationer. Read post in Inhabitat.