Industrialized housing solutions can display imaginative assemblies projecting homes in many variations. Stacked, aligned, interlocked or juxtaposed modular volumetric dwelling proposals employ densely packed or clustered organizations to rationalize building footprint, infrastructure provision and service distribution. Aggregating spaces and volumes in hive-like structures and arrangements using container-like prisms is the most common strategy. The manufactured units are completed before delivery and setting, a streamlined supply chain from planning to factory to site includes overwhelming advantages in terms of project timelines. Architectural singularity is perhaps the biggest challenge for modular volumetric’s rational stacking.
A recent project for student accommodations by Dyson Industries displays a unique silhouette with normalized factory finished boxes. Each Cross laminated timber box is connected to supporting or adjacent units to shape a 6-unit agglomeration. Designed by WilkinsonEyre architects, a London based firm, the «modular village» is based on rigorously dimensioned and designed giant building blocks structured in CLT and clad in Aluminum. The boxes are massed in a unique volume with each recognizable box cantilevered or setback to achieve differentiated form from simple prisms.
Even more complex organizations of interlocking modules have been explored leveraging geometries toward extreme compactness. Architect Liu Lubin's proposal for adaptable micro houses develops a modular composition from functional ergonomic sections, representing human postures and activities, resting, standing, sitting etc. The cross-shaped modular blocks can be matched and linked into micro-dwellings or larger mat-like collective housing blocks. Each cross-shaped unit is planned on a 600 mm grid within an overall dimension of 2,4m wide by 2,1 m deep. The stackable, enclosed, scalable, rotatable object envisions domesticity and its forms as changeable. A fibre-reinforced foam core composite makes it possible to easily lift and move the modules while achieving a smooth white ascetic surface inside and out. A comprehensively manufacturable product including factory finished doors and windows along with built-ins meticulously drawn-up to provide interior functionality, Lubin's vision deploys similar concepts used by Japanese Metabolists plugging dwellings together to establish novel forms of urbanity; shaping intense living environments that are determined by human form - a type of anthropomorphic collectivity.
Liu Lubin's cross-shaped modular volumetric proposal
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