HOME-MADE®: A bottom-up redevelopment strategy of (structurally) vacant office space in mass-customized housing solutions utilizing digital fabrication techniques

HOME-MADE®: A bottom-up redevelopment strategy of (structurally) vacant office space in mass-customized housing solutions utilizing digital fabrication techniques

Van Zeist, F.

Schroën, R.J. (mentor)
Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor)
Stoutjesdijk, P.M.M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Architectural Engineering

2014-12-17

This research consists of 3 parts/scales, combined in a single methodology: 1. The regeneration and redevelopment of (structurally) vacant office buildings, preparing a base ‘support’ building for 2. A customized housing solution, answering the diverse requirements households have regarding their living conditions by giving them the opportunity to spatially design their own home – with constraints – as the current postwar housing stock doesn’t provide a viable answer and; 3. A given set of reference points for a design for a technical construction system that facilitates the spatial mass customization of a single dwelling, taking into account design for manufacturing and (dis)assembly strategies for a durable system with relatively low life-cycle embodied energy due to the minimization of the recurring embodied energy. The 3 different scale levels combine in an open building approach, where a generic top-down structural frame is being designed as an architectural entity that facilitates an orchestrated bottom-up redevelopment of an office building ensuring individual customization and requirements by using a prescribed modular construction system with customization features.

mass customization
open building
digital fabrication
office vacancy
transformation
design for (dis)assembly

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Van Zeist, F.