Houston architect Brett Zamore earned high praise more than a decade ago for his modern reinvention of the shotgun house.

His next move was designing and building kit houses in the urban core.

His latest design: the "zFab," a tiny pre-fabricated dwelling he sees as a counterpoint to the city's hulking townhomes and out-of-scale McMansions.

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He built one in the Heights and uses it for his office. The 12-foot-wide building fills just 504 square feet.

He's also working with a developer to build a 10-unit zFab compound in Eastwood.

"Eastwood is no different right now than any of these other neighborhoods which are transforming and changing," Zamore said. "I'm not trying to fight the way things are done. I'm just trying to add a different element into the way things are developing."

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Back to Gallery Listen: Building the perfect prefab on a small scale 17 1 of 17 Photo: Kevin Fujii, Chronicle 2 of 17 Photo: Brett Zamore 3 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 4 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 5 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 6 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 7 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 8 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill 9 of 17 Photo: Benjamin Hill Photography 10 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 11 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 12 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 13 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 14 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 15 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 16 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography 17 of 17 Photo: Ayala Vargas Photography

































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