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Co-Adaptation 08




Housing


Prefabrication is not a new model, but its opportunities and limitations have yet to be fully explored as either single or multi family housing in the American market. The benefi ts of pre-fab are that as it is assembled in a controlled environment it can be constructed in a quicker, more accurate process, ultimately yielding a higher quality product for less investment. Detractors often cite it as a totalizing, one-size-fi ts-all construct, allowing for limited options and permutations. However, thought of as a range or class of designs, a typology, pre-fab can create different organizations for specific conditions.

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