摘要
Housing must be flexible to the circumstances growing families face as their needs change during the family lifecycle.The purpose of this paper is to gather a prelimi-nary understanding of growing families’needs and evaluate how modular off-site manufactured construction could effectively answer those needs.Despite the large amount of research that has gone into off-site manufactured buildings,there is little research that has explored its suitability as a flexible housing typology for growing families.The pilot presented in this paper investigates the specific context of Bris-bane,Australia;qualitative data have been gathered from growing families in this city and combined with established theory on flexible building to develop a pre-liminary understanding of how modular off-site manufactured construction could perform in meeting flexibility requirements in comparison to a traditional light-weight timber framed construction.Findings highlight how the ability to modify a dwelling is a fundamental feature for growing families;a number of other advan-tages in flexibility were found in modular off-site manufacture and recommenda-tions made to improve this construction typology.
