February 5, 2009, 11:26 pm
Open Source Architectural Design [03/03]: una tesi relativa al progetto OSBA
Categories: Open P2P Design @it| Testi
Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology
Dopo il primo post ed il secondo post riguardante il progetto di Open Architectural Design presso il MIT, qui potete trovare una tesi relativa a quel progetto, MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) sviluppata da Kalaya Kovidvisith presso il MIT e discussa nel Giugno 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
L’obiettivo principale di questa tesi è quello di applicare i principi dell’Open Source all’industria edile, e di mostrare come l’implementazione e l’ampliamento dei servizi Internet esistenti possa migliorare l’usabilità di progetti Open Source per l’architettura costruita.
La tesi quindi propone HOU.SYS, una comunità online per progetti di Open Source Building, come approccio alternativo agli esperimenti di piattaforme partecipative per la mass customization di piccole unità abitative ed i loro prodotti, tecnologie e servizi correlati.
This thesis reexamines the basic assumptions of how building products are distributed through the Open Source environment. By analyzing the impact of e-Business and Internet technology driving community participation, the integration of (1) four online Business models: Dell, Open Source, iTunes, and eBay, and (2) the advent of mass-customization through the revolution of Internet technology, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) for architecture and architectural product design and development will be established. The results of this evaluation identify the effective factors for the Internet augmentation framework to achieve the usability of Open Source for the design-build housing industry, and reinforce the changing relationship between homebuyers, architects, and manufacturers prior to making a final housing product.
E bisogna inoltre notare, nelle conclusioni:
The value of information, the role of technology, the advancement of fabrication and production, and the customer initiative are the critical factors for individualization.
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The result of the interface experiment indicates that the design application interface is merely a dialogue between consumers and providers to gather information and trasform it into an architectural knowledge representation. Consumers do not require comprehensive Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems, but rather interactive interfaces with communication channels to simulate and explore selected features of the product in response to information input and geographical constraints.
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