What is it about?
We present a novel platform, ModRule, designed and developed to promote and facilitate collaboration between architects and future occupants during the design stage of mass housing buildings. Architects set the design-framework and parameters of the system, which allows the users to set their space requirements, budgets, etc., and define their desired way of living. The system utilizes gamification methodologies as a reference to promote incentives and user-friendliness for the layperson who has little or no architectural background.
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Why is it important?
By bridging the gap between the architect and the user, our research aims to instil a greater sense of belonging to people, as well as providing architects with a better understanding of how to give people more control over their living spaces.
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The adopted open-source strategy and open-collaborative design approach of this research developed a platform for a bottom-up design methodology that allows for mass-customization and maintains efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the housing industry. Our research has shown that ModRule not only enables stakeholders to engage seamlessly in a collaborative process but also that the resulting design successfully expresses the design desires of users and architects leading to a novel architecture.
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: ModRule: A User-Centric Mass Housing Design Platform, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-47386-3_13.
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