projectos

Self FAB-House 4226 [for two to six]

Pedro Duarte Bento

Dec 12, 2009 - 02:44 PM

The SELF-FAB H::4226 HOUSE it’s a prefabricated and energetically self-sufficient house. Its construction is based on the use of new digital technologies and it’s especially flexible allowing the owner design it and build it himself.

1) This project tries to break the traditional line between the buyer, the builder contractor and the real state promoter. Beside this, the SELF-FAB H::4226 HOUSE is also a provocation concerning the role of the architect in a contemporary society. With the increase of new technologies, as standard cut-pieces and prefabricated structures or modules, and an easy access of the general public to them, the time and costs of production in construction scenarios can be dramatically reduced.

2) At the same time we are seeking solutions for the problematic of rural abandonment in the south of the Peninsula Iberica. The plea of the major cities, as long with the climate changes, and the abandonment of the rural practices are transforming the rural landscapes in deserts.
The hybrid character of this project – somewhere between the mobile and the static – reinforces the mutability of the stereotyped idea of «city» or «urban place». The SELF-FAB H::4226 HOUSE, although works by it self alone, is conceived to create rural communities and therefore new micro-cosmos of semi-urban life at the countryside. The non-definitive character of its constructive method generates a larger flexibility of disposal and time of permanence. 

3) Based in both purposes the SELF-FAB H::4226 HOUSE tries to be a common and reasonable option for those who pretend to leave the city and live in rural communities. Far from the traditional construction process, these housing units can be built at an affordable and less expensive price.