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PREFABRICATING HOME: A COMPELLING CASE FOR QUALITY IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING

SPANGLER, MATTHEW ALAN
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053439758

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2003, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Architecture.
The mobile home evolved as a low-cost alternative to site-built housing from the fusion of prefabricated housing systems and travel trailers. Low-income families adopted it as a viable form of affordable home ownership, and for several decades manufactured housing remained dedicated to this market. Twenty years ago the design began to turn toward the middle classes, styling itself after the ideal suburban home-in spatial configuration, materiality, and price. Manufactured housing strayed from the benefits of prefabrication and became a factory-built image of the suburban community, leaving an entire socioeconomic class without suitable housing alternatives. Design through modular prefabrication offers the potential for a low-cost housing system that can flex to the specific needs of nearly any user or site condition. Only by rediscovering the aesthetic, spatial, and economic benefits of systems design and modular construction will manufactured housing offer an alternative for those who can afford little else.
Dr. Barry Stedman (Advisor)
105 p.
Architecture
mobile home; trailer; panelized construction; prefabricated house; modular house

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  • SPANGLER, M. A. (2003). PREFABRICATING HOME: A COMPELLING CASE FOR QUALITY IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053439758

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • SPANGLER, MATTHEW. PREFABRICATING HOME: A COMPELLING CASE FOR QUALITY IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING. 2003. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053439758.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • SPANGLER, MATTHEW. "PREFABRICATING HOME: A COMPELLING CASE FOR QUALITY IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053439758

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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