A fire-resilient, modular home that combines off-site innovation, sustainable materials, and clean modern design to create a resilient and connected living environment.

Jennifer Siegal’s Office of Mobile Design presents Palisades 2.0, a house that embodies resilience, innovation, and fire-resistance. Learning from New England Shaker traditions, the design prioritizes simple, functional, and utilitarian construction, translating these principles into a contemporary modular home. A project of recovery and reinvention, it employs modular, off-site fabrication, sustainable materials, and house-hardening strategies such as fire-resistant cladding, defensible-site planning, and ember-protected detailing to enhance safety and adaptability.

Built with 12 modules in a controlled local factory in Southern California, the home is fabricated off-site while site work, including foundations and utilities, is completed in parallel. This approach reduces construction time by one-third, minimizes material and labor waste, and avoids the daily traffic, roadblocks, and conflicts caused by conventional on-site crews and neighboring rebuilds.

The house features clean geometry, an open floor plan, and a seamless connection to the landscape, reaffirming the neighborhood as a site of architectural exploration. Building on the experimental ethos of the original Case Study Homes, launched in 1945 by Arts & Architecture magazine under John Entenza, the project continues the legacy of using modern materials and techniques to create high-quality, resilient housing for contemporary challenges.