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Connections: Chassis and Infill (current project)

Tyson Lawrence, Thomas McLeish, Jarmo Suominen, Kent Larson

The construction of a new home in the US typically consists of 80% field labor and 20% material costs. Reversing this ratio will allow four times as much money to be devoted to materials, design, engineering, safety, and technologies in the home. Borrowing from recent innovations in the automobile industry, researchers are developing concepts for creating buildings from an integrated “chassis” that can be rapidly and precisely installed with minimal field labor. In one integrated assembly, pultrusion glass fiber composite beams and columns provide structure, insulation, sensor arrays, lighting, signal and power cable raceways, and ductwork. The chassis provides the necessary physical, power, and signal connections for mass customized infill components to be quickly installed, replaced and upgraded without disruption. Infill components may include integrated wall/floor assemblies, specialty millwork with transformable elements, display systems, networked appliances and devices, etc. Criteria will be established that may inform industry standards for connections of both physical and digital components for new design and construction methodologies

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Chassis and Infill