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 ...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.展开更多
文摘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.
