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The Castle: A Lean Micro-Dwelling
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posted on 2023-05-17, 01:27 authored by Richard BurnhamRichard Burnham, Green, RBThe Castle, a long-term collaboration between the School of Architecture & Design and local youth-service organizations, intends to assist youth at risk of homelessness by deploying micro-dwellings to households experiencing spatial and emotional distress. Responding to a demonstrated gap in the housing market, the brief for The Castle demands a dwelling that is small, mobile, autonomous and spatially clever. Aside from important social and pedagogical agendas The Castle explores 'leanness' in timber construction. Three prototypes have resulted in 'panitecture,' a highly adaptive construction system composed of CNC-router cut folded plate plywood wall panels integrated with built-in furniture. Panitecture results in an overall reduction in material waste, direct applicability to a low-skilled workforce and opportunities for mass-customisation, accommodating infinite design configurations to be processed without the need for continual redesign. Options are also available for deployment onto site-as a digital file, as individual components, assembled panels, an assembled carcass or as a completed dwelling.
History
Publication title
Journal of greenbuildingVolume
4Issue
Number 1 WinterPagination
101 - 113ISSN
1552-6100Department/School
School of Architecture and DesignPublisher
College PublishingPlace of publication
United States of AmericaRights statement
Copyright 2009 College PublishingRepository Status
- Restricted