Adaptive Built Environment Lab

Advanced Modular Housing Design (AMHD) Project

This project has addressed the enormous challenge of rapidly rebuilding communities that have been badly damaged and perhaps even destroyed by major natural disasters.

This project will be conducted in the context of three key challenges facing the U.S. housing industry: resilience, efficiency, and resource.

• Resilience: In environment of increased risk this design will focus on rapidly installed manufactured housing that increases the capacity for structures to withstand and/or adapt to sudden and prolonged change due to climate change and storm damage.

• Efficiency: Deploy climatic based design coupled with passive energy design strategies to achieve a hyper energy efficient building that can later on be equipped with advanced building systems and renewable energy technologies. Focus in on creating maximum efficiency.

• Resource: Developing integrated design, fabrication, and installation operations that overcomes shortages of skilled craftspeople with effective automation and the substitution of scarce materials with renewables. The focus will be on how the design of a manufactured house can stir innovation across the sector.