The architects and fabricators that formed the six-year-old Project Frog were tired of mediocre modular buildings. Their idea was to work out a kit-of-parts system that would offer the benefits of off-site construction but eliminate its limitations: weak design, caused mostly by trucking restrictions.
"Traditional modular spaces are constrained by transportation," says Ann Hand, Project Frog's president and CEO. "We don't feel people thrive in a box with eight-foot ceilings." Through its system of components—flat-packed and trucked to the site—Project Frog found a way for architects to design better spaces, she adds.