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

摘要研究人员提出的总体目标是创造一种概念化住房设计的新方法，将技术创新与制造过程相结合，从而产生更具有社会责任感的结果。首席研究员和他的同事们通过主要关注生产（创造从现场到工厂的建筑模式转变）、建筑围护结构（使用预制的堆叠式单体单元创新结构设计概念）和能源/全屋设计（整合低能耗和可持续技术）来促进与PATH目标一致的创新。他们提出了一系列研究目标，以促进在住房设计和采购过程中使用汽车技术转移方法的范式转变，从而解决了由于新住房技术采用缓慢而导致的住房行业效率低下和分散的问题。基于流程的创新将包括适合工业设计的技术，通过采用产品设计开发流程建模与适合工业生态的生命周期分析相关联，形成重组传统供应链流程和支持可持续性要求的基础。将探索制造房屋系统的替代大规模定制机会及其与生产线活动的互动，通过使用面向对象的数字设计的多维数字模拟，利用提高的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，将维持房屋围护结构内的被动能量交换。能源系统将集成基于性能的综合控制，以优化能源消耗。他们提出的新范式将要求行业在思维上进行一步转变，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，建立在一个预制和可运输房屋的项目原型上，该房屋完全由太阳能供电。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最大化利润。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高效的设计和制造方法，从而毫不妥协地将环境和社会可持续性特征结合起来。研究人员提出了一种技术转移范式转变，将传统的建筑方法转变为大规模定制的生产过程，通过改善财产性能使社会受益，这将直接影响国家对环境、住房基础设施状况和低收入住房社区改善的关注。一种新型的经济实惠的中密度建筑将被设想为适应性更强、更耐用、更节能的全寿命住宅类型。他们的住房设计和建造的新范式将启动一个社会转型，从贫困的低收入群体向一个有更多生活方式选择的进步的业主社会转变，因此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典范。项目目标的动机是创造机会，重新安置受破坏的城市地区。因此，调查人员和他的团队将首先关注位于底特律市中心的地点，作为重新安置这些剥落的城市区域的模型。重要的是，他们建议的原则将同样适用于整个美国和世界其他地区的城市再密集化。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来传播，这些项目设置在这个跨多学科边界的研究框架内，这是大学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.