Prefab Architecture A Guide to Modular Design and Construction

by Smith, Ryan E.; Timberlake, James

• ISBN13: 9780470275610
• ISBN10: 0470275618
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-14
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to offsite construction, presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with designing and building with components, panels and modules. It presents the drawbacks of building in situ (on-site) and demonstrates why prefabrication is the smarter choice for better integration of products and processes, more efficient delivery, and realizing more value in project lifecycles. Smith offers designers and construction professionals guidelines that rethink all stages of the design process in order to effectively utilize the fabrication process."Prefab Architecturehellip; is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than ls"Prefabrication 101.rs" It is the ls"Joy of Cookingrs" writ large for the architecture and construction industries." --From the foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA

Author Biography

Ryan E. Smith is Director of the Integrated Technology in Architecture Center (I TAC), an interdisciplinary research consortium at the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning in Salt Lake City, Utah (www.itac.utah.edu). Smith's research and teaching focuses on promoting integration that leads to sustainable and lean design and construction practice.

Table of Contents

Foreword: James Timberlake, FAIA

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Context

History of Industrialized Building

History of Industrialized Architecture

Environment, Organization, Technology

Application

Principles

Fundamentals

Elements

Assembly

Sustainability

Case Studies

Housing

Commercial

Conclusion

Conclusion

End Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

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