Doctoral Thesis
Open reWall: Survey-to-production workflow for building renovation
Filipe Jorge da Silva Brandão (Brandão, Filipe J.S.);
Year (definitive publication)
2023
Language
English
Country
Portugal
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Abstract
Building renovation of interior spaces, in the context of mass customization, requires a shift in how construction systems are designed, built, and reused. Leveraging digital frameworks for user participation, architects in collaboration with other stakeholders in the AEC industry may design anddeliver customized and disassemble-able solutions to generic end-users. The research proposes mass customization construction (MCC) systems can deliver cost-effective digitally fabricated and disassemble-able construction systems using survey-to-production workflows deployed in web configurators for end-users to co-design solutions in building renovation. The research methodology uses theoretical inquiry and analysis to define criteria and objectives to be explored in design problem solving. From these experiments generalizable principles and a lowkey workflow for the design of MCC systems of customizable and disassemble-able partition wall construction systems for open building renovation are synthetized. The workflow clarifies stakeholder roles, steps, and system architecture to implement an MCC system from survey to production. This investigation demonstrates the proposed survey workflow is usable by non-expert and expert instance-designers, with the former having on-average better results, and that these can survey spaces with sufficient precision for design-to-production workflows. It is also shown the survey-to-production workflow, the generic grammar, and criteria are useful for architects to design customizable and disassemble-able partition wall systems for open MCC systems.
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Keywords
As-is Surveys,Workflow,Parametric Design,Digital Fabrication,Building Renovation,Mass Customization
Funding Records
Funding Reference Funding Entity
UIDP/04466/2020 FCT
2020.08659.BD FCT
UIDB/04466/2020 FCT