id |
ecaadesigradi2019_177 |
authors |
Ostrowska-Wawryniuk, Karolina |
year |
2019 |
title |
BIM-Aided Prefabrication for Minimum Waste DIY Timber Houses |
source |
Sousa, JP, Xavier, JP and Castro Henriques, G (eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 251-258 |
doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.251
|
summary |
The continuous housing shortage demands efficient ways of design and construction. In the context of rising construction standards and shrinking manpower, one of the possible answers to the problem is prefabrication oriented towards do-it-yourself (DIY) construction methods, which could contribute to the low and middle income housing supply in the market. The article covers the process of developing an experimental tool for aiding single-family housing design with the use of small-element solid timber prefabrication, suitable for DIY assembly. The presented tool uses the potential of BIM technology adapting a traditionally-designed house to the needs of prefabrication and optimizing it in terms of waste generated in the assembly process. The presented experiment was realized in the Autodesk Revit environment and incorporates custom generative scripts developed in Dynamo-for-Revit. The prototype analyzed an input model and converted it into a prefabricated alternative based on the user- and technology-specified boundary conditions. The prototype was tested on the example design of a two-story single-family house. The results compare the automated optimized model conversion with manual adaptation approach. The implemented algorithm allowed for reducing the construction waste by more than 50%. |
keywords |
do-it-yourself construction; do-it-yourself house; generative BIM; BIM-aided prefabrication; small-panel timber prefabrication; self-help housing |
series |
eCAADeSIGraDi |
email |
karolina.ostrowska@pw.edu.pl |
full text |
file.pdf (2,108,050 bytes) |
references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
Belsky, M, Sacks, R and Brilakis, I (2016)
Semantic Enrichment for Building Information Modeling
, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 31(4), pp. 261-274
|
|
|
|
Bock, T and Linner, T (2015)
Robotic industrialization?: automation and robotic technologies for customized component, module, and building prefabrication
, Cambridge University Press
|
|
|
|
Cho, CM and Mu, W (2013)
Generative bamboo house: N4+ gluebam house
, Open Systems - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Singapore, pp. 747-750
|
|
|
|
McKean, J (1989)
Learning from Segal?: Walter Segal's life, work and influence
, Birkha?user
|
|
|
|
Mekawy, M and Petzold, F (2017)
Exhaustive Exploration of Modular Design Options to Inform Decision Making
, Sharing of Computable Knowledge - Proceedings of the 35th eCAADe Conference, Rome, pp. 107-114
|
|
|
|
Mekawy, M and Petzold, F (2018)
BIM-based model checking in the early design phases of precast concrete structures
, Learning, Prototyping and Adapting - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Beijing, pp. 71-80
|
|
|
|
Ostrowska-Wawryniuk, K and Nazar, K (2018)
Generative BIM Automation Strategies for Prefabricated Multi-Family Housing Design
, Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference, £ódŸ, pp. 247-256
|
|
|
|
Salingaros, NA and Tejada, DM (2001)
Modularity and the Number of Design Choices
, Nexus Network Journal, 3(1), pp. 99-109
|
|
|
|
Schneider, T and Till, J (2007)
Flexible Housing
, Routledge
|
|
|
|
Ward, PM (2019)
Self?Help Housing
, Orum, A (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley, pp. 1-6
|
|
|
|
last changed |
2022/06/07 08:00 |
|