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Disaster Proof: The Ephemeralization of Prefabricated Architecture for Climate Resilience

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2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The conventional method of construction has devolved into a mass produced placeless domestic commodity that refuses to acknowledge or responds to natural systems. Prefabrication as a construction method for these typologies as sought to expedite production at the cost of contextual identity and resistant design. Driven by climate change as outlined in Rising Tides Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, design has been directed towards climate responsive design yet still can fall victim to extreme environmental events and are designed to be replaced following these catastrophic events rather than designed to withstand them. In Nine Chains to the Moon, Buckminster Fuller proposed the idea of Ephemeralization, or the ability of technological advancement to do more with less, for the American housing model which prefabrication can achieve from its innate potential to adapt through precise customization. This thesis seeks to analyze the progression of the prefabrication in an urban and suburban context through focuses centered on material technology, its construction, assembly and the lifestyle it promotes. A set of two buildings will be designed as a proposed next iteration in prefabrication and resilient design to environmental forces. This thesis is set up to design a system of prefabricated parts that integrate with a structural system to adapt to extreme climatic conditions of a site while retaining design intent. These prototypes aim to disrupt the inert nature of contemporary architecture to contextual forces and establish a paradigm shift of the building construction technology by amalgamation of construction methods and site responsive design.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
James Postell, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
59 p.

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  • Detroit, R. N. (2019). Disaster Proof: The Ephemeralization of Prefabricated Architecture for Climate Resilience [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120881444618

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Detroit, Ryan. Disaster Proof: The Ephemeralization of Prefabricated Architecture for Climate Resilience. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120881444618.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Detroit, Ryan. "Disaster Proof: The Ephemeralization of Prefabricated Architecture for Climate Resilience." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120881444618

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