Unification's losers cluster in areas like Hellersdorf, a Legoland of pre-fab apartments where, in some pockets, the jobless rate approaches 40%.

While the idea of the pre-fabricated home is far from new, many architects see the current housing plight as the catalyst that could finally spark a thriving pre-fab industry here in the U.S..

Planning the reassembly of the materials in a similar way one would systematically compose with a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements are created from the large-scale highway components.