Off the shelf housing (event)

A discussion on prefabrication in the UK market

Friday 29 September 'o6
18.00, The Old Truman Brewery, 146 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

‘Traditional architectural practice is based on service to an individual client and care for a particular site. But what if the client is an impersonal market sector and the building must be adaptable to any site? Architects claim authorship of their designs, as if they were poets or painters, but who is the author of a building that has been developed and refined through various versions by production engineers and market analysts?’ Colin Davies, The Prefabricated Home

Organised by the RIBA Trust, this discussion will focus on the future of prefabrication in the UK and how a developed collaboration between architects and the building industry can lead to innovative and provocative solutions.

Speakers:

Alex de Rijke of dRMM, presented their latest project, Naked House, a prefabricated sustainable timber house whose window ‘cut-outs’ fold into the interior to become furniture.

Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta, who will expand on their Løvetann modular home on display during the debate as part of the ongoing exhibition 100% Norway at the Old Truman Brewery.

Dickon Robinson, Chair of Building Futures

Colin Davies, author of The Prefabricated Home

Chaired by James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, and director of audacity. (www.audacity.org)

For more information on the 100% Norway exhibition please visit:

www.norway.org.uk/100percent