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	* Self build home.		* Self build home.
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	* WikiHouse.		* WikiHouse.
	* Y:Cube.		* Y:Cube.

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	Grima pointed to a project he had led called RAM House which looked at the idea of data as a form of oil, being extracted from the home. Analysis and interpretation of this data would, he said, place control back in the hands of the homeowner.		Grima pointed to a project he had led called RAM House which looked at the idea of data as a form of oil, being extracted from the home. Analysis and interpretation of this data would, he said, place control back in the hands of the homeowner.
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		+	--[[User:Michael_Brooks\|Michael Brooks]]

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	* British post-war mass housing.		* British post-war mass housing.
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	* Futuro House.		* Futuro House.
	* Kit house.		* Kit house.

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	* Kit house.		* Kit house.
	* Modern methods of construction.		* Modern methods of construction.

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	=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===		=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===

		+	* A House for Essex.
	* Affordable housing.		* Affordable housing.
	* Archigram.		* Archigram.

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	On 5th September 2016, Designing Buildings Wiki attended the Royal Academy for a panel discussion entitled ‘Plug-In to Housing’. The event was part of the Academy’s ‘Peter Cook RA: Floating Ideas’ programme.		On 5th September 2016, Designing Buildings Wiki attended the Royal Academy for a panel discussion entitled ‘Plug-In to Housing’. The event was part of the Academy’s ‘Peter Cook RA: Floating Ideas’ programme.
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	The panel addressed the issue of what the speculative ideas and bold aspirations of ‘Plug-In City’ offer contemporary society as it struggles to adequately house its own citizenry, and each came at the idea of ‘housing’ from different innovative angles.		The panel addressed the issue of what the speculative ideas and bold aspirations of ‘Plug-In City’ offer contemporary society as it struggles to adequately house its own citizenry, and each came at the idea of ‘housing’ from different innovative angles.

−	Ivan Harbour, architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began by stating that alternative methods of building are vital as they are a cost-effective way of making construction ~~humanely~~ achievable.	+	Ivan Harbour, architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began by stating that alternative methods of building are vital as they are a cost-effective way of making construction humanly achievable.

	He explained an unrealised Korean project of a housing development near docks that used shipping containers as housing units. The idea was that the units would be placed around a flexible core by computer control, allowing for minimal human agency and improved efficiency.		He explained an unrealised Korean project of a housing development near docks that used shipping containers as housing units. The idea was that the units would be placed around a flexible core by computer control, allowing for minimal human agency and improved efficiency.

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On 5th September 2016, Designing Buildings Wiki attended the Royal Academy for a panel discussion entitled ‘Plug-In to Housing’. The event was part of the Academy’s ‘Peter Cook RA: Floating Ideas’ programme.

As part of the esteemed panel, Peter Cook RA – one of the founding members of the radical Archigram group – began by explaining the themes and ideas that inspired his legendary ‘Plug-In City’ project in 1964.

‘Plug-In City’ proposed a constantly evolving megastructure that incorporated housing, transportation and other services. Modular residential units that interlocked with an infrastructural core could be moved by cranes, responding to the dynamic conditions of the city and its inhabitants. Like other Archigram projects, this concept championed collective living and presented architecture not as isolated buildings but part of a connected system and network. Theory and innovation aside though, Cook affirmed his ethos that “in the end, the home is more important than the housing”.

The panel addressed the issue of what the speculative ideas and bold aspirations of ‘Plug-In City’ offer contemporary society as it struggles to adequately house its own citizenry, and each came at the idea of ‘housing’ from different innovative angles.

Ivan Harbour, architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began by stating that alternative methods of building are vital as they are a cost-effective way of making construction humanely achievable.

He explained an unrealised Korean project of a housing development near docks that used shipping containers as housing units. The idea was that the units would be placed around a flexible core by computer control, allowing for minimal human agency and improved efficiency.

This concept fed into RSHP’s later Y:Cube developments; affordable housing units designed as ‘move-on accommodation’ for single people leaving homelessness hostels and supported housing schemes. The advantage of these units, Harbour said, was a substantial cost saving in project management.

Y:Cube uses a pre-constructed modular system that enables units to stack on top or alongside each other, making it adaptable to the size and space available and well-suited to tight urban sites. Each unit is constructed from high-quality, environmentally-efficient materials (mainly renewable timber), creating accommodation that requires little or no heating, even in the winter.

Harbour also explained how RSHP were working with Medecins du Monde to try and develop a medical facility using precise elements and parts that can be assembled by the users themselves rather than machines.

Mollie Claypool, designer, writer and educator at the Bartlett and AA School, spoke about her research into architecture that is wholly digital, with an emphasis on design methods for fabrication and assembly units, in connection to housing. This was, she said, a fundamental shift in the way digital designers deal with architecture, offering the potential to have a better dialogue with policy makers, users and building design and construction.

It was her aim, she said, to strip digital design back to basics, or ‘discreteness’, being able to understand a building only through its connections and joints, which could be reimagined as ‘digital materials’.

She explained digital materials as being similar to Lego pieces that all have ‘male-female’ connections, or binary 0-1 in terms of computer code. There are many aggregations and combinations of a single building part, which can be used to interact with a whole range of different elements in a building. The potential was there to deal, not only with material and structural redundancy, but with spatial redundancy as well.

Joseph Grima, architect, writer/researcher and founder of Space Caviar, spoke about the frequent frustrations in the two-dimensionality in how housing is addressed – either in purely technological, economical or prefabrication terms. He stressed the importance of understanding the home from all perspectives, being as it is something that defies all reduction into simple terms.

He expressed his interpretation of Cook’s ‘Plug-In City’ as being, not just an influential aesthetic, but an allusion to the technologically-saturated society of the time, and which has only increased in kind.

He drew upon analysis of rising land prices across western societies over the last 30-40 years, to explore the idea that space cannot be defined in spatial terms any longer but as a form of currency that has value as part of a market, with all kinds of cascading consequences.

Related to this, there is no longer any distinction between space of labour and space of domesticity, as what makes up ‘the home’ is no longer so simply defined. As evidence of this he pointed to the likes of AirBnb, smart refrigerators and thermostats, or the habit of working from smartphones and iPads in the home. He mentioned a recent survey in which it was found that 40% of Londoners said they did work before going to work.

Grima pointed to a project he had led called RAM House which looked at the idea of data as a form of oil, being extracted from the home. Analysis and interpretation of this data would, he said, place control back in the hands of the homeowner.

= Find out more =

=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===

* Affordable housing.
* Archigram.
* British post-war mass housing.
* Kit house.
* Modern methods of construction.
* Modular buildings.
* Prefabrication.
* RSHP.
* Self build home.
* WikiHouse.
* Y:Cube.
* Y:Cube development in Mitcham.

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−	On 5th September 2016, Designing Buildings Wiki attended the Royal Academy for a panel discussion ~~entitled~~ ‘Plug-In to Housing’. The event was part of the Academy’s ‘Peter Cook RA: Floating Ideas’ programme.	+	On 5th September 2016, Designing Buildings Wiki attended the Royal Academy for a panel discussion about ‘Plug-In to Housing’. The event was part of the Academy’s ‘Peter Cook RA: Floating Ideas’ programme.

	As part of the esteemed panel, Peter Cook RA – one of the founding members of the radical Archigram group – began by explaining the themes and ideas that inspired his legendary ‘Plug-In City’ project in 1964.		As part of the esteemed panel, Peter Cook RA – one of the founding members of the radical Archigram group – began by explaining the themes and ideas that inspired his legendary ‘Plug-In City’ project in 1964.

−	‘Plug-In City’ proposed a constantly evolving megastructure that incorporated housing, transportation and other services. Modular residential units that interlocked with an infrastructural core could be moved by cranes, responding to the dynamic conditions of the city and its inhabitants. Like other Archigram projects, this concept championed collective living and presented architecture not as isolated buildings but part of a connected system ~~and network~~. Theory and innovation aside though, Cook affirmed his ethos that “in the end, the home is more important than the housing”.	+	‘Plug-In City’ proposed a constantly evolving megastructure that incorporated housing, transportation and other services. Modular residential units that interlocked with an infrastructural core could be moved by cranes, responding to the dynamic conditions of the city and its inhabitants. Like other Archigram projects, this concept championed collective living and presented architecture not as isolated buildings but part of a connected system. Theory and innovation aside though, Cook affirmed his ethos that “in the end, the home is more important than the housing”.

−	The panel addressed the issue of what the speculative ideas and bold aspirations of ‘Plug-In City’ offer contemporary society as it struggles to adequately house its own ~~citizenry~~, and each came at the idea of ‘housing’ from different innovative angles.	+	The panel addressed the issue of what the speculative ideas and bold aspirations of ‘Plug-In City’ could offer contemporary society as it struggles to adequately house its own citizens, and each came at the idea of ‘housing’ from different innovative angles.

−	Ivan Harbour, architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began by ~~stating~~ that alternative methods of building are vital as they ~~are~~ a cost-effective way of making construction ~~humanly~~ achievable.	+	Ivan Harbour, architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began by suggesting that alternative methods of building are vital as they might provide a cost-effective way of making construction achievable. He described an unrealised Korean housing project near docks that used shipping containers as housing units. The idea was that the units would be placed around a flexible core by computer control, allowing for minimal human agency and improved efficiency.

−	He explained an unrealised Korean project of a housing development near docks that used shipping containers as housing units. The idea was that the units would be placed around a flexible core by computer control, allowing for minimal human agency and improved efficiency.	+	This concept fed into RSHP’s later Y:Cube developments; affordable housing units designed as ‘move-on accommodation’ for single people leaving homelessness hostels and supported housing schemes. One of the advantages of these units, Harbour said, was a substantial cost saving in project management.
−		+
−	This concept fed into RSHP’s later Y:Cube developments; affordable housing units designed as ‘move-on accommodation’ for single people leaving homelessness hostels and supported housing schemes. ~~The advantage~~ of these units, Harbour said, was a substantial cost saving in project management.	+

	Y:Cube uses a pre-constructed modular system that enables units to stack on top or alongside each other, making it adaptable to the size and space available and well-suited to tight urban sites. Each unit is constructed from high-quality, environmentally-efficient materials (mainly renewable timber), creating accommodation that requires little or no heating, even in the winter.		Y:Cube uses a pre-constructed modular system that enables units to stack on top or alongside each other, making it adaptable to the size and space available and well-suited to tight urban sites. Each unit is constructed from high-quality, environmentally-efficient materials (mainly renewable timber), creating accommodation that requires little or no heating, even in the winter.

−	Harbour also explained how RSHP were working with Medecins du Monde to try and develop a medical facility using ~~precise~~ elements ~~and parts~~ that can be assembled by the users themselves rather than machines.	+	Harbour also explained how RSHP were working with Medecins du Monde to try and develop a medical facility using elements that can be assembled by the users themselves rather than machines.

	Mollie Claypool, designer, writer and educator at the Bartlett and AA School, spoke about her research into architecture that is wholly digital, with an emphasis on design methods for fabrication and assembly units, in connection to housing. This was, she said, a fundamental shift in the way digital designers deal with architecture, offering the potential to have a better dialogue with policy makers, users and building design and construction.		Mollie Claypool, designer, writer and educator at the Bartlett and AA School, spoke about her research into architecture that is wholly digital, with an emphasis on design methods for fabrication and assembly units, in connection to housing. This was, she said, a fundamental shift in the way digital designers deal with architecture, offering the potential to have a better dialogue with policy makers, users and building design and construction.

−	It was her aim, she said, to strip digital design back to basics, or ‘discreteness’, being able to understand a building only through its connections and joints, which could be ~~reimagined~~ as ‘digital materials’.	+	It was her aim, she said, to strip digital design back to basics, or ‘discreteness’, being able to understand a building only through its connections and joints, which could be re-imagined as ‘digital materials’.
−		+
−	She explained digital materials as being similar to Lego pieces that all have ‘male-female’ connections, or binary 0-1 in terms of computer code. There are many aggregations and combinations of a single building part, which can be used to interact with a whole range of different elements in a building. The potential was there to deal, not only with material and structural redundancy, but with spatial redundancy as well.	+

−	~~Joseph Grima, architect, writer/researcher and founder of Space Caviar, spoke about the frequent frustrations in the two~~-~~dimensionality in how housing is addressed – either in purely technological~~, ~~economical~~ or ~~prefabrication~~ terms. ~~He stressed the importance~~ of ~~understanding the home from all perspectives~~, ~~being~~ as ~~it is something that defies all reduction into simple terms~~.	+	She described digital materials as being similar to Lego pieces with ‘male-female’ connections, or binary 0-1 in terms of computer code. There are many aggregations and combinations of a single building part, which can be used to interact with a whole range of different elements in a building. The potential was there to deal, not only with material and structural redundancy, but with spatial redundancy as well.

−	~~He expressed his interpretation~~ of ~~Cook’s ‘Plug-In City’ as being~~, ~~not just an influential aesthetic~~, ~~but an allusion to~~ the ~~technologically-saturated society~~ of the ~~time~~, ~~and which has only increased in kind~~.	+	Joseph Grima, architect, writer/researcher and founder of Space Caviar, spoke about the frequent frustrations in how housing is addressed – either in purely technological, economical or prefabrication terms. He stressed the importance of understanding the home from all perspectives, as something that defies all reduction into simple terms.

−	He drew upon analysis of rising land prices across western societies over the last 30-40 years, to explore the idea that space cannot be defined in spatial terms any longer but as a form of currency that has value as part of a market, with all kinds of cascading consequences.	+	He expressed his interpretation of Cook’s ‘Plug-In City’ as being, not just an influential aesthetic, but an allusion to the technologically-saturated society of the time. He drew upon analysis of rising land prices across western societies over the last 30-40 years, to explore the idea that space cannot be defined in spatial terms any longer but as a form of currency that has value as part of a market, with all kinds of cascading consequences.

−	Related to this, there is no longer any distinction between space of labour and space of domesticity, as what makes up ‘the home’ is no longer so simply defined. As evidence of this he pointed to the likes of AirBnb, smart refrigerators and thermostats, or the habit of working from smartphones and iPads ~~in the~~ home. He mentioned a recent survey in which it was found that 40% of Londoners said they did work before going to work.	+	Related to this, there is no longer any distinction between space of labour and space of domesticity, as what makes up ‘the home’ is no longer simply defined. As evidence of this he pointed to the likes of AirBnb, smart refrigerators and thermostats, or the habit of working from smartphones and iPads at home. He mentioned a recent survey in which it was found that 40% of Londoners said they did work before going to work.

	Grima pointed to a project he had led called RAM House which looked at the idea of data as a form of oil, being extracted from the home. Analysis and interpretation of this data would, he said, place control back in the hands of the homeowner.		Grima pointed to a project he had led called RAM House which looked at the idea of data as a form of oil, being extracted from the home. Analysis and interpretation of this data would, he said, place control back in the hands of the homeowner.