Performance House: A CADCAM Modular House System (2006)
article⁄Performance House: A CADCAM Modular House System (2006)
abstract⁄Millions of persons around the globe live in low quality indigenous, or Manufactured Housing MH systems that often result in low ‘performance’ undesirable living environments and, at times, life threatening habitation. Our research has explored mass production principles in product design and architecture, currently at the single family housing scale, with a focus on the recent devastation along the US Gulf Coast as a result of hurricane impact, most notably hurricane Katrina.‘Modern architecture’ theoreticians have conceived, written, prototyped and even launched business ventures in an attempt to bring their manufactured housing ‘ideas’ to fruition. However, architects have generally had little ’longterm’ impact in the area of manufactured housing strategies and the current manufactured housing industry remains archaic and problematic. This paper includes our research of other architects attempts to leverage technology in the manufactured housing industry additionally, we analyzed current problems in the US mass housing industry. We then derived a set of ‘design criterion’ as a means of anchoring our design inquiry for a proposed factorybuilt modular house system.Our research encompasses both process and product innovation this paper reflects on our use of technology to leverage an Industrial Design ID process that is inclusive of many ‘design’ partners and team members. We are using both virtual and physical output representation and physical prototyping for a factorybuilt house system our Research and Development RD is ongoing with our collaborating designmanufacture engineering partners from the automotive, furniture and aerospace research labs here at Mississippi State University. Our goal is to use ‘industrial design’ principles to produce mass housing components that provide durablesustainable housing.
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| Year |
2006 |
| Authors |
Barrow, Larry. |
| Issue |
Synthetic Landscapes |
| Pages |
104-121 |
| Library link |
Gregory A. Luhan, Phillip Anzalone, Mark Cabrinha & Cory Clarke, 2006. bib⁄Synthetic Landscapes. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
performance-house |
