Printed house as a model for future housing

Abstract

The printed house is one of the latest and most important global attempts to solve the housing crisis, based on its speed of delivery and reasonable cost; new versions of such houses are also generally able to meet the requirements of individual families far better than previous standard models, allowing them to be adopted as a model for future housing. The research problem for the current work was thus the existence of a knowledge gap with regard to the applications of printed houses in terms of such adoption, and the research objective was to build a theoretical framework around current and potential applications of printed houses in such a way as to allow this to be adopted as a model for future housing. The hypothesis was the importance of printed house applications depends on the types of future houses supported by market forces. The study found that printed houses offer a solution for temporary housing needs due to their small footprints that correspond to the demographic nature of many modern families. Other positive features, such as affordability, flexibility, eco-friendliness, style, and support of healthy lifestyles mean that they also represent the future of housing by meeting the requirements of individual families more effectively, allowing better customisation and a move away from mass production.

Optimisation of a Design-to-Fabrication Framework for Individualised Homeless Housing Design in Melbourne, Australia

“…Specifically, on the merging of user-to-design and design-to-fabrication processes through a human-centric design approach. Therefore, this research responds to Petersen (2015) and Mahdi's (2021) request by investigating a novel housing design solution that purposefully explores a human-centric digital design process to assist in the design of housing for understudied populations, in our case, the homeless individuals living in Melbourne, Australia. Another limitation might be the lack of framework validation.…”

“…To address such housing crises, previous research have argued the need for architects to investigate novel housing design solutions through more purposeful explorations of modern design tools and technologies (Mahdi, 2021). In fact, previous research have also forecasted the likelihood of future design processes to adopt computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) for more rapid and efficient responses to growing urban needs (Beirao et al, 2018;Daher et al, 2015).…”