Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.
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| author | Plewe, Thomas Clayton |
| author2 | Terry Knight. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/478972019-04-12T09:15:40Z Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing Software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing Plewe, Thomas Clayton Terry Knight. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 65). Tract housing has earned its position as the overwhelmingly dominant paradigm of home building and ownership in America because it's such an efficient and therefore cost-effective system. Custom-designed housing has provable benefits over a one size-fits-all approach, but has remained unreachable for the vast majority of home buyers (or at the very least not worth it) due to the price/time/hassle disadvantage of its inefficient production systems. In attempting to make customized housing competitive with the tract home on a price/time/hassle graph, this thesis searches for efficiency through using bricolage; nonstandard, ambiguous components; the principles of object-oriented programming; and the consumer-centric standard practices of e-commerce. A paradigm and accompanying software are created to allow a custom house to be designed in hours rather than months, enabling architects to design by arranging pre-designed multi-room components, as selected from a searchable database, into a single structure that uniquely fits a client's needs. Sample houses are designed and economic estimates are made to gauge the potential competitiveness of such a system with tract housing, as well as the system's potential effect on the overall economy of architecture. by Thomas Clayton Plewe. S.M. 2009-10-01T16:00:41Z 2009-10-01T16:00:41Z 2008 2008 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47897 435532596 eng System requirements: CD-ROM drive. M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 65 leaves application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title | Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing |
| title_full | Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing |
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| title_short | Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing |
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| topic | Architecture. |
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