This project investigates the use of parametric design for form-finding and fabrication techniques that are specific to an environment and location. From various parametric methodologies including stacking, aggregation, bundling technique is chosen. Bundling implies: a series of uniform elements such as string or sticks that are deformed to create intersecting nodes. As a result, the geometry and typology changes in different intensities of convergence and divergence. The entire process is governed by a predetermined set of parameters and with the application of algoritms and functions, interesting forms and spaces are generated.
For this housing project, the parameters that govern the forms are determined by external environmental factors, including solar orientation, wind, topography and privacy. The controlled parameters include site access, number of bedrooms and amount of apertures.
Linear typology
Scatter typology
Interior
House: 1 Bedroom v1
House: 2 Bedrooms v1
House: 3 Bedrooms v1
Exploded Axonometric
The footprint of a prefab construction impacts far less on the building site compared to a traditional building foundation. As this method also employs off-site fabrication and assembly, there is a significantly reduced impact on the site with regard to disturbance, run-off and waste. It is much easier to control waste streams in a factory, as waste can easily be separated for recycling at the point of creation on an assembly line than on a building site, where experience tells us, material separation is often difficult to achieve. From required building material, up to thirty to forty percent of building material waste generated from conventional building ends up in landfill, compared to as little as two percent waste achieved through prefabrication methods.
Materiality
Construction Staging
Relationship between variation of housing modules determined by parameters such as
overshadowing, privacy and ventilation.
Courtyard communal parameters
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