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The world's growing urban population has created a pressing need for more residential buildings. To address this challenge, this project has leveraged the power of combinatorics and fabrication-aware digital timber to create modular housing. The project proposes liveable units using discrete elements which are combined to form single houses. A constraint-based solver was then used to aggregate the single houses, creating multi-level habitats. Additionally, 3D graphic statics were used to form-find a stable column design, which was then materialised. To achieve custom bespoke joinery for the nodes, we used robotic additive manufacturing and tested various slicing techniques in order to save time and resources. Our innovative approach to modular housing has the potential to provide sustainable and affordable housing solutions for communities around the world.
The unit is replaced by a mesh box; single-level units are stacked to form duplexes.
The overall evaluation score is calculated for each aggregation by adding the individual tile scores and normalising them by the number of units.
The aggregation outputs are kept small to medium, but the algorithm allows for scaling the solution space and tile sizes to any desirable dimension.
The workflow allows for the quick exploration of multiple aggregations.