Proceedings of Concept House - Towards Customised Industrial Hou torrent

Title: Proceedings of Concept House 1 - Towards Customised Industrial Housing
Editor: Eekhout, A.CJ.M.
Publisher: Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Architecture
Chair of Product Development
First edition - 22 June 2005
ISBN: 90-5269-328-5-geb

At the TU Delft, faculty of Architecture, a new research group is active since January 2004,with the first PhD student starting at September 1 st 2004 onwards. The group is regularly growing and will exist for 5 years: up to 2010. The aim of the research group is to do a preliminary marketing first, to design, develop and research new Concept Houses, to build and test them as prototypes, to do a final marketing for use in the Netherlands and in Western Europe and to prepare the actual production in the form of zero-series.
The research group has been composed as a multi-disciplinary research group in which urban designers, architects, building technical designers, industrial designers, domoticadesigners, marketing people are working together with industrialists and potential clients like housing associations.