Constructing Critically Prefabricated Systems with Soul. (1st November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhu, Jingxiang
• Other Names: Lu Andong guestEditor.; Dou Pingping guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 40
• Page End: 45
• Publication Date: 2018-11-01
• Subjects: CUHK, Grameen Bank -- Lukou village -- Xuzhou -- Jiangsu province -- China -- New Bud System -- Suzhou -- Yunnan -- Sichuan -- Hong Kong -- Konrad Wachsmann -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Usonian houses -- Great Depression -- Jean Prouvé -- Second World War -- Richard Buckminster Fuller -- AIIA (Architecture Integration and Innovation Association) -- Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) -- structural insulated panels (SIP) -- Jingxiang Zhu -- Dazu -- Mercalli Intensity Scale -- Yunus China Centre -- Professor Muhammad Yunus -- Bangladesh -- 2006 Nobel Peace Prize -- Dou Pavilion -- 2016 Venice Biennale -- Gansu province -- Checkered Playrooms -- Western Sunshine Rural Development Foundation -- Chongqing -- Modern Movement; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2363
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Prefabrication is an obvious solution for the building needs of remote, economically deprived or disaster‐stricken regions. But must it mean soulless standardisation? Certainly not – as the AIIA (Architecture Integration and Innovation Association) team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has demonstrated. The team's leader, architect and associate professorJingxiang Zhu, explains how they have developed flexible, easy‐to‐erect prefabricated systems that can adapt successfully to different settings and programmes, providing spaces that are not only functional, comfortable and resilient but also stimulating and even playful.