Affordable and Social Housing

There is no doubt that contemporary off-site construction is radically changing the rules of architectural design. With prefabrication, buildings can move away from rigid, highly invasive and risky methods that damage the environment and are incapable of adapting to diverse conditions in a rapidly evolving world. By integrating digital, precise and collaborative technologies with innovative, light and high-performance materials, architects can offer an appropriate response to environmental, economic and social challenges. From the social point of view, they can offer greater fairness in access to housing by providing cheaper and higher-quality solutions that are adapted to the diverse needs of people, even in more unaffordable urban environments. From the design point of view, architects can escape from conventional methods, such as the antiquated modular solutions, and use a more flexible digitalized prefabrication technique. Accordingly, the buildings aimed at overcoming the housing shortage can still be adapted to different needs.

This is why it is crucial to continue to explore diversified and innovative off-site solutions, in a drive to contribute to a more sustainable and creative world – and thus progress towards better architecture and improved global quality of life.