AN ANALYSIS OF PREFABRICATED MICROHOUSES: bioinspired design strategies.
Off-Site Construction; micro housing; hybridity; Bioinspired Design; Parameterisation.
Off-Site Construction (that produced outside the construction site) has become a great alternative to the demands of the contemporary world. Its use worldwide, especially in developed countries, has been consolidated over the last decades as an excellent strategy for sustainable development, making the system a great alternative for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Its application in the creation of tourism-oriented micro dwellings emerges from the approximation between the disciplines of design and architecture, both for the scale of these artefacts, but above all for the implementation of parametric modelling tools for their design in a more efficient way, with a focus on sustainability. In this sense, the dissertation will propose to analyse, through 3 case studies, examples of projects of prefabricated bioinspired micro dwellings aimed at tourism, in order to, from them, propose project guidelines that can unfold in parameters of optimized parametric modelling that use concepts of Biomimetics for the creation of these artefacts.