A prefabricated home in Bariloche, Argentina, by Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento, founders of the architecture and design studio La Base with slatted wood folding screens around a porch sits on snowy, forested hillside slope.

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As Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento of La Base embraced modular design as part of their architectural practice, they noticed that prospective clients were wary of prefabricated construction. So the duo teamed up with Place, an Argentine prefab builder, to make a proof of concept just outside the Patagonian resort town of Bariloche.