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Summary

Project Specifications Deliverable Specifications

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Design Work

Notes

To communicate and utilize research of different options for Alaskan housing, a framework for comparison is necessary. The design work in this document attempts to unify our language and model for approaching modularity in housing by using a set of visual guides to compare variables and characteristics of different housing styles.

While this is by no means a comprehensive exploration, this work can act as the beginnings of a framework to identify where modularity has appeared in physical structures, throughout their lifecycle from manufacturing and construction to usage and reparability. It is also an opportunity to present gaps in the housing style marketplace, as well as highlight case studies in which examples of existing housing prototypes have been studied in detail in order to fulfill the need for truly modular and adaptable housing.

Work that was completed is based around the concept of a "Spectrum of Modularity" in both the manufacturing and usages stages of a housing structure. This graphic format was chosen to show some of the important characteristics of modularity that were identified in collaboration with researchers:

In the Manufacturing stage, structures are plotted on axes of Fabrication, from Pre-Fabricated to On-Site Construction, and Reusability, from Single-Use to Design for Reassembly

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Axis definitions Provides an easy guide to interpreting the Manufacturing and Usages axes that styles are plotted on

Spectrum middle

Anchors a center-point that defines boundaries between extremes of axes while still acknowledging "grey area" in spectrum If there are any updates or corrections that need to be made to this work, please don't hesitate to contact me through my email.

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