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2010-01-16

ACASA: Affordable Housing for the Developing World

Clipped from: ACASA

According to the UN, over one and a half billion people worldwide reside in substandard housing. Imagine if we could alleviate today's global housing crisis using new, automated construction technologies.

Clipped from: YouTube - WeAreAcasa

WeAreAcasa

Clipped from: ACASA Rapid Manufactured Housing

Based on the work of Behrokh Koshnevis at the University of Southern California, Rapid Automated Manufacturing (also known as Contour Crafting) is capable of building a 1000 ft² home in approximately one day. Advances in robotics and materials science suggest that future developments in this technology will include interior surfaces and furnishings.

Clipped from: Contour Crafting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contour Crafting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contour Crafting is a construction process under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently without manual labor. It was originally conceived as a method to construct molds for industrial parts. Khoshnevis decided to adapt the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that have plagued his native Iran.^[1]

Clipped from: Contour Crafting

Contour Crafting (CC) is a layered fabrication technology developed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.

Clipped from: Sofya Yampolsky on the 3-D printing of houses | Singularity University

Sofya Yampolsky on the 3-D printing of houses

The ACASA team project examined how these exponentially growing technologies could be applied to the problem of sub-standard housing, concluding that advances in Rapid Additive Manufacturing (RAM) technologies could be used to construct customizable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable homes.

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2009-01-21

Paper House

Clipped from: The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for poor and displaced - Times Online

The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for poor and displaced

Clipped from: Paper Houses: New Design Could Revolutionize World Slums - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

New Design Could Revolutionize World Slums

A new invention could soon change the face of shantytowns across the globe. Called "Universal World House," the structures are light, cheap -- and made of paper.

Clipped from: Swiss Company Offers Paper Homes - Science - redOrbit

Swiss Company Offers Paper Homes

A Swiss company known as The Wall AG, has created a $5,000, 390 square foot modular home.

This house is marketed towards third-world towns, for long-term refugees. The Universal World House can be transported and used almost anywhere. It is light, easily assembled, environmentally friendly, earthquake-proof and extremely cheap.

The Universal World House is crafted out of a resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, shaped into honeycomb walls, which provide structural integrity and insulation for the home. It also comes outfitted for plumbing and boarding facilities of up to 8 residents.

The home's inventor, Gerd Niemoeller, says that the paper house weighs just 1,763lb, which is lighter than a VW Golf. “Without the foundation block, the whole house actually weighs in at about 400kg,” says the design engineer. However, despite it being light, the house will not simply blow away.

Clipped from: anArchitecture: Honeycomb Paper House.

Honeycomb Paper House.

SwissCell walls are based on hexagonal structures similar to honeycombs: the technique results in lightweight but strong boards, typical used in the vehicle and aircraft industry. Usually honeycomb boards are made of aluminum – an expensive and energy intensive material. SwissCell, by contrast, is a cellulose product, impregnated by synthetic resin.

Clipped from: SwissCell - The Wall AG

2008-09-18

An Automated House Building Machine

Clipped from: House Building Robot To Be A Reality Soon - Gizmo Watch

House Building Robot to be a reality soon
A new automated construction system is all set to change the face of home-building, for it is soon going to step out of the developmental phase and become a functional house-building robot. This prototype was developed by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. A computer-controlled crane or gantry will build houses efficiently without any manual labor. It will use a quick-setting concrete-like material and will build up structures in a layer-by-layer fashion.

Clipped from: Contour Crafting - Global Prospects

Welcome to Construction by
Contour Crafting

Clipped from: USTI.News 001, JUNE 1997

Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, developer of Contour Crafting technology, with equipment used for his prototyping system.

Clipped from: Contour Crafting

Contour Crafting (CC) is a layered fabrication technology developed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.

The potential applications of this technology are far reaching including but not limited to applications in emergency, low-income, and commercial housing.

YouTube - Contour Crafting - House Building Prototype Robot

2008-08-29

Next Generation House

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Next Generation House, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, is a 4 x 4 meter cube of solid Japanese cedar blocks assembled like a jigsaw puzzle to create spaces for sitting and lounging.

Clipped from: Next Generation House by Sou Fujimoto Architects | CoolBoom
Next Generation House by Sou Fujimoto Architects

The next generation house, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, is a small housing module for weekend use located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, Japan.

Clipped from: Next generation house

Heavy yet light

Next Generation House is a small housing module for weekend use, located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, opposite the temple of Shibatatehime. The client is a timber merchant.

The small pavilion, a 4x4 m cube, is made by assembling solid Japanese cedar blocks kept in place by their own weight and connecting metal cables running through vertical drill holes.

Some of the inside cubes are laid off-centre to create shelves, small living areas and even steps to move from one level to another.

Offsets in the wall cubes also create windows with views of the surrounding countryside. The oblique glass windowpanes are held in place with plastic plugs. The mobile sheets are in transparent acrylic.

Two roof skylights provide extra natural light – an architectural feature over which Fujimoto takes special care. At night, artificial light visible from the outside helps to dematerialise the cube by mixing the warm tones of wood with the amber glow of incandescent bulbs, emphasising the ways in which a structure made up of heavy wooden elements can seem so light and airy.

2008-07-02

Living in the Future

How technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Living Tomorrow

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Living Tomorrow is a research oriented company with projects in the towns of Brussels and Amsterdam. It focuses upon opening what it calls 'The Houses of Tomorrow'