Genetic Morphology into Mass Customize Housing
The unprecedented growth of the urban population and climate change have underscored the urgency of new design research that responds to the ever-increasing demand for innovative and sustainable housing solutions. The work resulted in this area is at once exciting and overwhelming for its optimism, if justified, in its call for major shifts in both design approaches and construction techniques. Over the past decades architects and planners have been ruthless to reach innovative housing design that is responsive to economic, cultural, and sociopolitical conditions as well as environmentally sustainable.
The Super Habitats 2080 studio pursues this hypothesis in three ways, each with a set of preconditions, tactics and goals.