Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes Home have designed a modular prototype that may be configured to assemble low-cost housing.
The Industrialized Constructing System Prototype was designed by Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes Home and fabricated by Cromolux in Santiago, earlier than being assembled within the close by city of Casablanca, Chile.
“The prototype was conceived to offer a solution to the pressing international dwelling disaster,” architect Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen advised Dezeen.
“We determined to construct a home as a primary prototype of the Constructing System however with these elements and items that work as a ‘LEGO,’ you may design and construct every other typologies.”
Drawing on improvements by Walter Gropius and different Bauhaus designers, the prototype consists of a thick, layered recycled wooden fiber panel framed by “wood sub-modules that hyperlink collectively by a system of locks and wedges” to type constructing blocks for partitions, flooring and ceilings.
“All of this creates the modular coordination of metal and wooden carpentry with no surplus materials, and the place each half has its personal place and performance,” Hirigoyen mentioned, explaining that the layered meeting supplies thermal and acoustic consolation for the house.
The panels are put in inside a light-weight, anti-seismic, recycled metal construction measuring 5 metres by 18 metres (16 ft by 60 ft) to create an 80-square-metre (860-square-foot) home.
The outside of the panels is layered with a vapor barrier and corrugated metallic plates that permit the facade to ventilate.
A gabled metallic roof – held off the field profile by angled webs forming a triangular truss – tops the home and shows the situation’s accelerated desertification course of.
“Underneath its vast eaves, air move is achieved to ship recent air to the inside by way of the home windows under them,” Hirigoyen defined.
“It additionally serves as a fog catcher by condensation, which permits water assortment and supplies assist for photo voltaic panels for a 100 per cent off-grid electrical scheme.”
The prototype system can even operate with no roof construction.
The home meeting is about off the bottom by tripod foundations and is organized with an inset, dogtrot-style porch accessed by a metallic grating ramp.
The inside of the housing unit – consisting of two bedrooms, two bogs and an open residing, eating and kitchen area – is completed with laminated wooden boards.
Along with the passive sustainable methods, the mission features a wastewater therapy system.
The development was environment friendly, requiring solely 4 onsite crew members, a crane truck and a set of wrenches and screwdrivers.
Hirigoyen referenced the effectivity and standardization of prefabricated modules as a key part of the system’s software and suppleness – in addition to the prototype’s means for use each horizontally and vertically.
“Our system permits fixing different typologies comparable to buildings for collective housing, well being, training and numerous kinds of tools,” he mentioned.
The studio is now engaged on the following model of the prototype with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Structure College.
In the same idea for a special terrain, Danish studio MAST is creating a modular prototype system for developing floating buildings that will likely be offered on the UIS World Congress of Architects in July.
Within the UK, Studio Bark constructed an accessible home utilizing a modular U-Construct system.
The pictures is by Marcos Zegers except in any other case said.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes Home
Collaborators: Ciro Barraza Mancilla, Architect; Fernando Gajardo, Cromolux FG
Builder: Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen
Engineering revision: Pedro Bartolome Bachellet, MAS engineers