Collaborative Mass Housing Design practice with Smart Models

Abstract

Mass housing, due to its repetitive patterns, provides great opportunities for the rule-based parametric design. Design rules and logics can be formulated to generate various design solutions, also known as rule-based design process. In addition, mass housing design ought to be a complex process that involves not only the architects, developers and contractors, but also ideally, includes the users. In reality, however, the users are always excluded during the design process as there is no such a system that provides simple, effective and feasible design communication mechanisms. This meta-paper aims to collates and presents all possible parameters that are affiliated with mass housing. It will explore into various levels of scales from urban to building-units to map out the interconnected relationships. The outcomes open up new possibilities to apply parametric modeling in mass housing design practice.