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Constructing Critically Prefabricated Systems with Soul
Author(s) -
Zhu Jingxiang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2363
Subject(s) - prefabrication , soul , architecture , architectural engineering , computer science , sociology , engineering , business , civil engineering , visual arts , philosophy , epistemology , art
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 professor Jingxiang 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.