Prefab Prototypes - Site-Specific Design For Offsite Construction Anderson, Peter

Résumé :

Prefabricated construction has celebrated a renewed popularity over the last few years, and for good reason. Thanks to continually refined offsite production techniques, architects, engineers, builders, and the general public have embraced a way to reconcile high-quality architecture with increasing regulatory pressure, economic considerations, and environmental consciousness. No longer does the term "prefab" call to mind bland cookie-cutter housing, temporary classroom bungalows, or undifferentiated precast building blocks. As architects Mark and Peter Anderson have demonstrated in more than twenty years of practice as Anderson Anderson Architecture, a perceptive and creative approach to prefabricated construction makes possible affordable, well-designed buildings in harmony with their natural and public environments. With Prefab Prototypes, the authors provide a thorough overview of the driving forces behind prefabrication, highlighting ways in which applied logic and design efficiency result in lower costs, quicker construction time, higher-quality buildings, and environmentally smarter use of resources. The Andersons outline six different construction approaches common to current prefabrication practice - panelized 2x4, CNC timber framing, precast and panelized concrete systems, steel framing, sandwich panels, and modular systems - exploring potentials and appropriate applications for each, illustrated with real-world applications drawn from their projects in the U.S. and Japan. Using residential, commercial, and public examples, the case studies demonstrate that flexible prefabrication technologies, paired with imagination and a sensitivity to local conditions, are as applicable on the side of a cliff, on a remote island, or in the middle of an apple orchard as they are in the heart of downtown or in a dense suburban neighborhood.

The many plans, sections, exploded-component drawings, and photographs, coupled with the Andersons' detailed and illuminating text, provide a thorough theoretical foundation and imaginative examples for describing site-specific prefabrication's vast potential to harness advancing production technologies and revolutionize architecture and the construction industry.

A propos de l'auteur :

Mark and Peter Anderson's innovative, research-intensive design and construction work has been recognized with numerous design awards and exhibitions, and has been widely published throughout the world. Based in San Francisco and Seattle, their firm Anderson Anderson Architecture and its affiliate, Bay Pacific Construction, have for more than twenty years developed prefabricated building strategies for environmentally sensitive single- and multifamily residential projects, mixed-use urban developments, and public architecture in the United States and Asia. Mark Anderson teaches on the architecture faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and Peter Anderson at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. They represented the United States with a design for prefabricated mixed-use urban housing, environmental remediation infrastructure, and flood control on the Mississippi Riverfront in New Orleans at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006.

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