Graduate School Thesis Project
Well-designed, affordable, and sustainable housing can be made available to the average person if we combine architecture with industry.
This seemingly simple hypothesis solicits complicated issues. Houses have been affordable and mass-produced in the past, but rarely well-made or well-designed. Sustainability and green-building practices have certainly been around forever, but the social conditions have not been favorable enough for mass-production. That is, until now.
The marriage of these seemingly disparate goals is a prefabricated house product line called smartfab. This packaged house system combines sustainability, affordability, and design into an attainable whole for the average person. This product line is the synthesis of new building technologies, existing infrastructure, and real-world market considerations. The result is a uniquely original construction system and infinite possibility building flowchart. Smartfab not only provides simple design solutions, but also provides the “green” advantage and affordable pricing.
