Industrialized building systems: reproduction before automation and robotics

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The Journal focuses on Industrialization, Reproduction, Served and serving spaces, Analogical model, Performance criteria, Building Systems, Process– product interaction, Load-bearing service core. Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a rural society into an industrial society. Reproduction is the introduction of an innovative technology capable of simplifying the multiplication of complex goods. The served spaces are relatively open spaces suited to accommodate the household activities, and they occupy most of the floor areas, they mainly include the living room, the dining room, the family room and the bedrooms. Analogical models are a method of representing a phenomenon of the world, often called the "target system" by another, more understandable or analyzable system. Process Interaction is a model of managing parallel or concurrent processes by defining how data between these processes is exchanged and how the processes are synchronized with each other.

To deliver quality architecture to the vast majority of people, the building industry should move to full industrialization. Industrialization is basically the aggregation of a large market to divide into fractions the investment in strategies and technologies capable, in return, of simplifying the production and therefore reducing the costs. Simplification is the goal. Whereas the first four degrees of industrialization (i.e., prefabrication, mechanization, automation, and robotics) remain at the level of duplicating the traditional construction processes, the fifth degree, reproduction, seeks innovative processes capable of shortcutting the repetitive linear operations of craftsmanship nature. A methodology can be extrapolated from the analogical model of printing (from the electronic printed circuit to the printed plumbing core). Adopting this methodology implies three steps:

  1. Generating the geometry of the product from the performance criteria,
  2. Selecting a process that can simplify the materialization, and
  3. Designing the product accordingly.

The load-bearing service core offers a relevant case study of that methodology: the space is distributed between the served and serving areas, the latter being concentrated into a value-added factory-made module capable of generating diversified building types.

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Journal of Industrial Electronics and Applications
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