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Item 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.Item Re-thinking Residence: How to Mass Produce Diversity?(2020) Ahmed, Mansoor; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Due to shortage of housing, Pakistan has launched a project to build five million new dwellings within the next 5 years, through public-private partnerships. Currently, in Pakistan, only 0.3 million units are built in one year and this project would increase that number drastically, greatly impacting the environment and the built fabric. This thesis looks at an alternative to the simple idea of repeating one house to make many. It is a vision to reimagine Pakistani cities through this expansive development: mass produce dwellings that are responsive to environmental and contextual conditions, minimize the impact on existing infrastructure, energy consumption, and the environment. The proposal is an optimized system of construction that has the ability to mass-produce customizable and personalized units. The aim of this thesis is to showcase a balance between mass production and personalization.Item Rethinking the American Home: Expandable-Life-cycle Houses in Suburban Context(2011) Kraushar-Plantholt, Victoria Kathleen; Hurtt, Steven W.; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The range of typical single family houses available in the market today does not respond well to the ever changing size of the family, first expanding then contracting. Ideally, a house should be flexible throughout the household's life cycle and respond to its owners' ever changing needs. A life-cycle-family house could grow and contract with the family and meet any new functional needs, such as accessibility for the elderly. Could a new house type allow each household to stay in residence longer, ease the financial trouble of purchasing new houses as aging precipitates changes in lifestyle? This thesis will explore the possibility of ways to provide a new house type, one that can expand and contract with the needs of a typical family.Item MASS PRODUCING AMERICA, NEIGHBORHOOD REVITILIZATION IN NORTH LAWNDALE - CHICAGO(2005-08-25) Cross, Marcus A; Bennett, Ralph; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis, which has been branded the MPA Project (Mass Producing America) is an exploration into the creation of an infill affordable housing solution to meet the needs of the North Lawndale Community of Chicago. Plagued by crime, violence, and economic disinvestment, it has been a victim of extreme urban blight. Economic conditions are now favorable for revitalization and the area is ideal for an exploration such as this. Within the project area are over two-hundred available building sites. This project explores how contemporary construction ideas can be used to make affordable, flexible and customizable homes. Moreover, since this problem is not unique to Chicago, it is possible that this solution could be applied in any number of cities throughout the country.