The Future Of Making

The Future Of Making: From projects to products

Aerts, C.J. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering)

Asselbergs, M.F. (mentor)
van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor)
Stoutjesdijk, P.M.M. (mentor)
van Loon, F.D. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2020-07-03

This master graduation project presents an exciting vision of a better built environment for affordable housing in The Netherlands and abroad for many generations to come.

Established industrial manufacturing methods combined with parametric design have the potential to disrupt the conventional design-to-manufacturing processes in the building industry. Currently factors such as increasing cost of labor, stagnated productivity per employee and highly fragmented design-to-manufacturing processes in the building industry have not proved to be fruitful influences for the mass production of customizable buildings. Moreover, in order to become sustainable the building industry has to make a drastic shift towards renewable materials and integrate a high level of modularity.

With market fit solutions by product thinking a wide variety of parametrically engineered housing options can be offered to the customer without having to enter the entire iterative process of design and engineering. This strategy also allows to finally integrate a high level of robotization in off-site manufacturing facilities.

Product Thinking
Parametric Design
Robotics
Prefabrication
Modular

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Student theses

master thesis

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