ModRule: A user-centric mass housing design platform

Tian Tian Lo, Marc Aurel Schnabel*, Yan Gao

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel platform, ModRule, designed and developed to promote and facilitate collaboration between architects and future occupants during the design stage of mass housing buildings. Architects set the design-framework and parameters of the system, which allows the users to set their space requirements, budgets, etc., and define their desired way of living. The system utilizes gamification methodologies as a reference to promote incentives and user-friendliness for the layperson who has little or no architectural background. This enhanced integration of a both bottom-up approach (usercentric/ player) with a top-down approach (architect-centric/game-maker) will greatly influence how architects design high rise living. By bridging the gap between the architect and the user, this development aims to instill a greater sense of belonging to people, as well as providing architects with a better understanding of how to give people more control over their living spaces. The paper also presents an evaluation of a design process that employed ModRule.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer-Aided Architectural Design Futures. The Next City - New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment. CAAD Futures 2015.
Subtitle of host publicationCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages236-254
Number of pages19
Volume527
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-662-47386-3
ISBN (Print)978-3-662-47385-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAADfutures 2015 - São Paulo, Brazil
Duration: 8 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAADfutures 2015
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CitySão Paulo
Period8/07/1510/07/15

Keywords

  • Collaborative design
  • Mass housing
  • Participatory system

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