In the wake of 9/11 attacks, however, the company had to lay off much of its staff, and Tanney started doing research into both academic and practical uses of prefab and modular houses built in factories.
[8][9] In 2003, Tanney's design for a high-scale prefabricated home won the international competition of Dwell Magazine, seen as a 21st-century version of the Case Study Houses program.
[15] Tanney's most famous work is the Nathan Wieler and Ingrid Tung Home, better known as the Dwell House, in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
For the Dwell Home, one of these units was mounted atop another at right angles, adding various decks to connect the structure to the outdoors.
[2] It became the basis for RES4's "Modern Modular", a method where dozens of predefined typologies are formed from a series of standard modules.
[20] When Hurricane Sandy hit the area, the surrounding houses were devastated, but Bronx Box remained intact, with the owners staying inside through the whole crisis.