pre[FABRICA]tions

notes on mass housing, building systems, dwellings, types, offsite construction and industrialized building

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 493 - Exhibiting Prefab Potentials

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  Architectural pedagogy established during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to a new type of specialized architectural...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 492 - The Turning Point of Building

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If precast reinforced concrete panels epitomized prefab production in the 20th century, flexibility and adaptability emerged as two symbolic...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 491 - From precast concrete plates to « Flying Panels »

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  Above all other systems, one embodies industrialized construction’s input on mass produced serial architecture. From the mid 1940s and thr...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 490 - Looking Forward to 500

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  The first 10 blog posts (January – April, 2014) acknowledged both iconic and lesser-known prefab experiments, some productive and many flo...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 489 - 3D Printing - An Onsite Assembly Line

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  Considered for the designed-to-order fabrication of small complex objects in the recent history of additive manufacturing, the technology...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 488 - Modern Dry Masonry for Cleaner Sites

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  Masonry construction is commonly known as a wet construction method. The site-intensive process of laying masonry uses binders, with hydra...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 487 - The Architecture of Standardization

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Since modernism pioneered new architectural possibilities based on industrial techniques and materials, architects have developed an enigmat...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 486 - The Patterns of Timber Framing for Teaching Robots

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  Envisioning the streamlined fabrication of customized pieces, panels, or chunks delivered just-in-time, for the quick, and easy assembly o...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 485 - On- and Offsite management

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Dealing with difficult climate conditions, labour shortages, or even health and safety issues on building sites seems to point toward greate...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Prefabrication experiments - 484 - Competitiveness and Timesavings

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  Advanced manufacturing, big data optimizations along with precise resource management are all combining to generate all manner of efficien...
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