Potential for Social Housing Mass Customization in Brazil through the Integration between BIM and Algorithmic-Parametric Modeling

Abstract

This paper presents a design system for low-cost production of mass customized housing units, in the context of the city of Teresina, in Piaui State, Brazil. The platform stands for the integration between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and algorithmic parametric modeling systems. The research aims to verify the potential of this integration to enable the mass customization of social housing during the design process through the automation of design solutions and real-time visualization of construction data, such as building schedule and estimation of the final cost. The results demonstrated that real-time manipulation and visualization of data related to construction, using specific algorithmicparametric routines, is capable of aiding designers in developing a solution that matches specific demands with cost and scheduling estimation control in a short period of time.

Connecting the Portuguese system of evolutive housing with building information modeling: From analogical to digital methods

“…Figure 6 illustrates the steps of the methodological procedures. This work continues a dialog with contemporary research in the housing field first with the problem of mass customizing houses for the different needs of the assisted families, [6][7][8][9] and second with the problem of participatory design in architecture. [10][11][12]…”

“…This study has the potential to aid in one of the most difficult tasks to achieve mass customization of housing which is the relationship with the inhabitants. Recent research can design millions of different housing solutions, 8 but if this sociological approach is not completed, the problem persists because the job of attending to the needs of the families is challenging since the amount of information is hard to process. The purpose of such assistance is to give the architect feedback to start the design with an instrument that saves production time in a process where quantity defies the practice since the expectation is to attend to hundreds of families assisted by housing programs in a short period.…”