This week's MoCo picks.

+ Architect Tegnestuen Vandkunsten's bbb low-cost housing prefab design in Elsinore, Denmark. "prefab courtyard low-cost housing. flat, wood elements. you are looking at a single unit in two floors. this is a prototype done partly to serve as a sales pavillion and partly to learn how to assemble the next 124 houses effectively.". Via materialicious.

+ Elemental Architecture's 2470 sq. ft. Mount Baker Residence "perched on a slope with views of Rainier Valley to downtown Seattle". Of interest, but not shown, the Mt. Baker Residence also has a 635 sq. ft., fully-detached, self-sufficient, additional dwelling unit ("ADU"). Via Jetson Green.

+ Japan's Arrow-resort corporation features an Atelier Bow-Wow designed villa in Karuizawa. Via Dezain via architecturephoto.net.

+ Jun Igarashi architects' translucent membrane wrapped Annex house. Via Judit Bellostes via world-architects.com.

+ Interesting Flickr collection of Tokyo houses via the girl in the green dress.

+ Scribemedia's Five Prefab Houses at MoMA video. "Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s chief curator of Architecture & Design, gives SMAC a tour of the five houses erected for the show. These range from a second home on a beach to a digitally fabricated design that would replace the lost homes in New Orleans.".

+ Vincent de Rijk & Ventura's LEDs in resin Solid Lighting at DESIGNWS.COM (the page also includes several noteworthy pieces of resin-based furniture by the designer).

+ Carlo Colombo's glass faced Crystal wall hood for Franke. "Low noise level, touch button controls, dishwasher-safe stainless steel filters, LED lighting and perimeter aspiration system.". Via Appliancist.

+ NEL collective's global warming rug for nanimarquina. "designed by the mexican design collective NEL. 'global warming' portrays a polar bear stranded on an ice floe, victim of melting polar icecaps and climate change.". Via designboom.

+ Industreal's Winter porcelain and laser cut homeware collection at designboom. "Various designers including Apostolos Porsanidis, Pierre Foulonneau, Greg Ball, Ionna Vautrin, Emmanuel Gallina and clara giardina have designed an object for the new collection.

+ Online manufacturing: icon magazine and designer Sebastian Bergne put Ponoko to the test. Bergne designed the Bandit ruler and the Ring Calendar to test out the online manufacturing service. "The Bandit ruler is a one-piece product acting both as a ruler and as a firing mechanism to fire elastic bands. The Ring Calendar comprises a wall bracket onto which you hand three large rings (the days, dates and months), which you manually rotate to indicate the correct date.".

+ Print-on-demand shoes at Zazzle. "They’re not the most super stylish of models and trainer-heads are likely to sniff at them but when you can put yer own pattern on them… who gives a toss, really.". Via boicozine.

+ Vincent Voorduin's winning beachball bean bag for design.nl. "The beach ball as symbol for the ultimate feelgood summer feeling...the placing of the valve is well thought out, making a simple design far from boring.".