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    INHABITUAL ASSEMBLY: PREFABRICATION DRIVING SUSTAINABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS
    (2024) Hussien, Abdureuf; Vandergoot, Jana; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Beyond any point in human history has the efficiency of building construction been more critical within the realm of architecture. The future demands sustainable designs that impose minimal burdens on the environment and future generations. Meeting this demand necessitates a reevaluation of conventional fabrication and assembly systems.This study underscores the critical imperative of strengthening the symbiotic relationship between fabrication and design. Furthermore, it emphasizes the ever-growing need to embrace subtractive manufacturing, enabling the tailoring of each architectural component to precise specifications, thereby enhancing overall adaptability and functionality within constructed spaces. This comprehensive method, when used in timber-based architecture, becomes quite advantageous as it combines the efficiency of prefabrication and assembly with the flexibility of customizing parts, ultimately facilitating the creation of sustainable and innovative architectural spaces.
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    Communicating Courtyards
    (2023) Gulisashvili, Konstantin; Bell, Matthew J; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This project is for a multiple story residential structure and urban redevelopment near the Shota Rustaveli square. This courtyard building is owned by different families and offers a communal frame supporting family use. The courtyard configuration promotes privacy and provides a safe semi-private space. The design goal of the project is to evolve the failing urban fabric and to develop a contemporary dwelling based on the historical and cultural precedent of the Tbilisi Courtyard house.The main feature of this project is the courtyard style residential building, which will provide multiple uses such as socializing, cooking, play space, and more. In addition, the project will attempt to reproduce city traditions via a seamless connection of redeveloped surrounding neighborhoods with the existing city fabric.