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Bent
Architecture has been working in consultation with Massachusetts Community
Development Corporations (CDCs), the Green CDCs Initiative, and Greentech
Housing – a modular home manufacturer – to develop a component-based
modular system of urban infill housing. Some CDCs have looked to the promising
“turn-key” potential of modular construction to address the
expense of custom home design and construction, but with very limited success.
For small-scale urban infill housing, the modular construction industry
does not currently provide the same remarkable efficiencies of design and
construction that it has historically provided for commercial tract housing
developments. With
green standards in mind, Bent Architecture’s goal is to design and
implement a system of modular housing components that will make the development
of infill housing on difficult, underutilized urban sites as efficient
for CDCs as suburban tract housing is for commercial developers. The system
will be flexible enough to respond to different site constraints as well
as the different visual contexts of the neighborhoods in which it is used.
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