PATH: Technological Innovations in an Industrially Designed and Manufactured Modular Housing Concept for Low Energy, Prefabricated, Low-Rise Low Income Housing Units

技术创新的工业设计和制造的模块化住房概念的低能耗，预制，低层低收入住房单元CMS 0533325摘要在调查人员的建议的首要目标是创造一种新的方式概念化的住房设计，集成技术创新与制造工艺，从而产生更多的社会责任的结果。首席研究员和他的同事通过主要关注生产（创建从现场到工厂的建筑模式转变），建筑外壳（使用预制堆叠单体结构单元创新结构设计概念）和能源/整体房屋设计（整合低能耗和可持续技术），促进与PATH目标一致的创新。他们解决了住房行业的低效率和分散，由于采用新的住房技术缓慢，通过制定一些研究目标，促进在住房设计和采购过程中使用汽车技术转让方法的范式转变。基于过程的创新将包括适合工业设计的技术，采用与适合工业生态的生命周期分析相关联的产品设计开发过程建模，分别构成重组传统供应链过程和支持可持续发展的基础。将探讨制造住房系统的替代大规模定制机会及其与生产线活动的相互作用，利用面向对象的数字设计，通过多维数字模拟提高施工精度和装配顺序。组件设计创新将包括系统集成的隔热板，作为组合的墙壁和地板系统，将维持房屋外壳内的被动能量交换。能源系统将整合基于性能的控制，优化能源消耗。他们提出的新模式将需要行业思维的一步转变，因此该项目已经确定了与广泛的行业合作伙伴合作的战略。该项目将作为大学单位之间的合作来运行，这些单位建立在一个完全由太阳能供电的预制和可移动房屋的项目原型上。目前的住房制造利用了一个短视的，最小公分母的市场，以牺牲社会和环境质量为代价来实现利润最大化。相比之下，研究人员试图将住房设计中的技术知识基础提升到一种高效的设计和制造方法，这种方法毫不妥协地整合了环境和社会可持续性特征。调查人员提出了技术转让模式的转变，将传统的建筑方法转变为大规模定制的生产过程，通过改善房地产性能使社会受益，这将直接影响国家对环境的关注，住房基础设施的状况和改善低收入住房社区。一种新的负担得起的中密度建筑类型将被设想为更具适应性，耐用性和能源效率的终身住房类型。他们的住房设计和建造新模式将启动社会转型，从贫困的低收入群体转向有更多生活方式选择的进步的房主社会，从而鼓励混合用途开发的可行性，这将成为创建社会可持续社区的模式。项目目标的动机是创造机会，重新填充城市破败地区的潜力。因此，调查人员和他的团队将创建一个最初的重点放在位于底特律市中心区的网站，作为一个模型，重新填充这些裸露的城市地区。重要的是，他们的建议的原则将同样适用于整个美国和世界其他地区城市的重新密集化。该项目的教学价值将通过以学生为基础的设计工作室和研究项目进行传播，这些项目在跨多学科界限的研究框架内设置，构成了大学内已经存在的社会推广计划的一部分。

Technological Innovations in an Industrially Designed and Manufactured Modular Housing Concept for Low Energy, Prefabricated, Low-Rise Low Income Housing UnitsCMS 0533325 Abstract The overarching objective in the investigators' proposal is to create a new way of conceptualizing housing design that integrates technological innovation with manufacturing processes, resulting in a more socially responsible outcome. The principal investigator and his colleagues promote innovations consistent with PATH objectives, through a primary focus on Production (creating a paradigm shift for construction from site to factory), Building Enclosures (innovating a structural design concept using pre-manufactured stacked monocoque units) and Energy / Whole House Design (integrating low energy and sustainable technologies). They address the housing industry's inefficiencies and fragmentation, caused by the slow adoption of new housing technologies, by setting out a number of research objectives that promote a paradigm shift using automotive technology transfer methodologies in the design and procurement process for housing. Process based innovations will include technologies appropriate to industrial design by adopting Product Design Development Process Modeling associated with Life Cycle Analysis appropriate to industrial ecology to form the basis of restructuring the traditional supply chain process and supporting sustainability imperatives respectively. Alternative mass customization opportunities for manufactured housing systems and their interaction with production line activities will be explored, taking advantage of improved construction accuracy and sequences of assembly through multi-dimensional digital simulations using object oriented digital design. Component design innovation will include systems integrated thermally insulated panels that perform as combined wall and floor systems that will sustain passive energy exchange within the house enclosure. Energy systems will incorporate integrated performance based controls that will optimize on energy consumption. Their proposal for a new paradigm will require a step change in thinking by the industry and as such the project has identified a strategy for engaging with a broad range of industry partners. The project will be run as collaboration between university units, which build on a project prototype for a prefabricated and transportable house that is powered exclusively by solar energy.Current housing manufacture exploits a short sighted, least common denominator market that maximizes profit at the expense of social and environmental quality. In contrast, the investigators seek to elevate the technological knowledge base in housing design towards a highly efficient design and manufacturing approach that uncompromisingly integrates environmental and social sustainability features. A technology transfer paradigm shift is proposed by the investigators that will transform traditional construction methods into a mass customized production process that will benefit society through improved property performance, which will directly impact national concerns about the environment, the state of the housing infrastructure and the improvement of low income housing communities. A new genre of affordable medium density buildings will be conceived that will be more adaptable, durable, and energy efficient as whole-life housing typologies. Their new paradigm for housing design and construction will initiate a social transformation from depressed low income groups towards a progressive home owner society that has more lifestyle choices, therefore encouraging the viability of mixed use developments which will serve as a model for creating socially sustainable communities. The project objectives are motivated by the potential to create opportunities to repopulate blighted urban city areas. Therefore the investigator and his team will be creating an initial focus on sites situated in the Detroit inner urban area, as a model for repopulating these denuded urban zones. Significantly, the principles of their proposal will be equally relevant to the re-densification of cities throughout the United States and the rest of the world. The project's pedagogical value will be diffused through student based design studios and research projects, set within this research framework across multi disciplinary boundaries, which form part of a social outreach program already in existence within the University.