WHOLE AS PART MASS-CUSTOMIZATION HOUSING THROUGH standard modules When designing residential buildings, the current method is to provide high-quality prototypes that can satisfy most, let’s say 80%, demands of people’s daily need. It used to work well, however, with the explosive development in every aspects of our society, people are now not satisfied with the standard ‘80% satisfied’ design. Unfortunately, it is impossible for architects to do customized design for everyone. In this case, Mass-Customization in housing design must be realized in an affordable way, which is customized combination of standard parts. To realize that, we have to create a logic loop dealing with the relationship between part and whole so as to enable the automation in the design.
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