This thought-provoking book presents a compelling argument for moving architecture from a part-by-part, linear approach to an integrated one that brings together technology, materials, and production methods. Using examples from several industries that have successfully made the change to an integrated component approach, these visionary authors lay the groundwork for a dramatic and much-needed change in the building industry. * Packed with graphics that illustrate how and why change is needed * Examples from the auto, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries illustrating how to improve quality while saving time and money * Redefines the roles of architects, materials scientists, process engineers, and contractors
1 Refabricating Architecture is a confident, vivid, and irrefutable case for moving construction into the world of supplychain management, upgradeable services, and buildings as quilts, with hardly any joints to be made on-site.
An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production Chad Schwartz ... Notes 1 Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building ...
A timely response to the growing interest in this method, the book provides the fundamental basis for a critical, reflective approach to offsite architecture.
13 Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University press, 2006), 21. 14 Levinson, 80. 15 Levinson, 23. 16 Levinson, 88–90.
—Kieran and Timberlake, Refabricating Architecture 2004 A house is a machine for living in. —Le Corbusier Prefabricated or shop-fabricated components are pre-engineered building components, often modular and panelized units, ...
In this text, author Chad Schwartz presents an introductory investigation into tectonic theory, subdividing it into distinct concepts in order to make it accessible to beginning and advanced students alike.
Through the use of state-of-the-art building information modeling, the architects were able to streamline the design-build process. This is a manual for the componentized prefab.
Through a series of questions, the book explores several of KieranTimberlake's ongoing research agendas including speed of on-site assembly, design for disassembly, a holistic approach to the life cycle of materials, and the development of ...
From NCC, direct contributors to the study have been Chief Advisor of IT and Business Development/Industrial PhD student Anders Kudsk (AK), Head of Concept Planning Lars Henrik Hansen (LH), and Head of Project and Process Planning Claus ...
In: Manual: The Architecture of Kieran Timberlake. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 10. 23 Wallick, K. (2010) KieranTimberlake: Inquiry. New York: Rizzoli, 5. The first ten serve as chapter headings in Manual, 5; the second ten ...