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- Title
EL PROYECTO ARKIT. LA VIVIENDA COMO KIT DE MUEBLES.
- Authors
Cepeda, Francisco Javier Terrados
- Abstract
The article makes a summary review of some of the conceptual bases of the "ArtKit project" and their results as housing projects and real buildings. The first part covers examples of modern homes where what we understand as furniture, now rather gigantic in scale, has defined, and in some cases almost exclusively built, the domestic space. This is the "furniture which builds houses". In the second part, the article reviews the six light prefabricated housing projects that have been designed under the "kit furniture" concept as an open prefabrication system: the houses of CSCAE (the Council of Architectural Colleges of Spain); the Campohermoso prototype; the Arkit project, the Tariquejo residence; the Solarkit project and the Arkit 18 project. The Arkit project and its variant with solar energy, the Solarkit project, have been constructed and had their behaviour analyzed. The Arkit project is a novel contribution in the field of light prefabricated housing, adapted to the environmental conditions of southern Europe, which uses pieces of intermediate scale as construction elements, that are halfway between the size and versatility of furniture and the scale of the conventional room. The Arkit project allows user choice and, as the examples show, adaptation to different housing programmes.
- Subjects
SPAIN; PREFABRICATED houses; PUBLIC housing design &; construction; ARCHITECTURAL design; MODERN architecture; SOLAR energy; ARCHITECTURE
- Publication
Revista Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, 2012, p114
- ISSN
2171-6897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12795/ppa.2012.i6.07