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(More customer reviews)After the many coffee table books illustrating prefab modern houses, this book is a much-needed rigorous review of prefab design and construction processes and outputs. It synthesizes the many facets of offsite construction emerging in the construction industry, but does it from an accessible perspective allowing the reader to understand the history of production and its future in realizing new innovative buildings. The book gets a bit wordy on contemporary design and construction practices and the tradeoffs to industry professionals of prefabrication for the lay design enthusiast and the fabrication technician. However, it appeals to both crowds with ample coverage of contemporary architectural examples of prefabricated houses, commercial structures and interiors; and the technical coverage of materials and systems reviews the methods of production and lean approaches to outputs for building construction thoroughly. The chapter on green building is instructive in illustrating how modular and prefabrication can be leveraged to achieve LEED ratings and other environmentally responsive building goals. Resting somewhere between an updated version of A.F. Gibb's Offsite Fabrication published in 1999 and glossy architecture folio books of the early 20th century, this book synthesizes the current academic/professional research, cultural understanding, and technicalities surrounding fabrication and assembly in the U.S. building industry, demonstrating to architects and construction professionals the when, where, what, why and how of prefabrication.
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Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction"Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries."-From the Foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA
The definitive reference on prefab architecture for architects and construction professionals
Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to off-site construction, presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with designing and building with components, panels, and modules. It presents the drawbacks of building in situ (on-site) and demonstrates why prefabrication is the smarter choice for better integration of products and processes, more efficient delivery, and realizing more value in project life cycles. In addition, Prefab Architecture provides:
A selected history of prefabrication from the Industrial Revolution to current computer numerical control, and a theory of production from integrated processes to lean manufacturing
Coverage on the tradeoffs of off-site fabrication including scope, schedule, and cost with the associated principles of labor, risk, and quality
Up-to-date products featuring examples of prefabricated structure, enclosure, service, and interior building systems
Documentation on the constraints and execution of manufacturing, factory production, transportation, and assembly
Dozens of recent examples of prefab projects by contemporary architects and fabricators including KieranTimberlake, SHoP Architects, Office dA, Michelle Kaufmann, and many others
In Prefab Architecture, the fresh approaches toward creating buildings that accurately convey mature and expanded green building methodologies make this book an important voice for adopting change in a construction industry entrenched in traditions of the past.
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