Business Plan:

2026 – Singular modular elements to pre-existing buildings

• Initially before 2026 we start with architectural elements and furniture to perfect the design period/refinement to understand the technology

First year

• Architectural elements and modular adaptations of pre-existing structures such as staircases and rooms/annexes/adding another function

• Needs to be bespoke elements as we need to have revenue and get clientele with this new method. To cover initial costs and minimise losses.

Second year

• Full repurpose of pre existing structures such as industrial to residential

Third year

• Expanding second year into a full method of our practice

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Marketing Management:

Different tiers of products:

Bespoke, 3D printing standard elements e.g. standard rooms, design work involving architects. These different points have different price points so at client meeting I will need to identify what level of project it is.

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3D printing, Bespoke and modular:

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Concrete:

https://www.the-possible.com/3d-printing-mass-produced-elements-construction/

 

• Creating concrete bespoke elements cost effectively

• Example: cladding that continuously varies to suit the internal and external environment. You can have whatever shape or angle you want including shapes that are impossible to make with conventional moulds.

• There is potential for this technology to be used in conjunction with volume produced [moulded] elements. These elements will not be very costly as technology is being helped with automation, which is improving, making the cost of software’s needed to take a design, and instruct robots to make it, decrease massively.

• Finishes of concrete can be an issue. The corrugated appearance of 3D printing concrete is a result of the printing process, which builds elements by laying down a 12mm-diameter bead of concrete. A smaller bead results in a smoother appearance. However, smaller beads slow the whole process and also restrict the size of aggregate you can use. Various approaches are being taken to create a smoother finish, including fitting a trowel attachment to the concrete nozzle, applying a skim, or smoothing the element post-curing by grinding.

• Another issue is reinforcement. This can be improved by adding chopped fibre reinforcement to the concrete mix.

• 3D robots operating on site, printing on site reduces transport costs.

• While 3D-printing robots will probably start their construction careers in factories, having them located at a temporary factory near to site can get the efficiency associated with off-site prefabrication, but with minimal transportation costs.

 

Bespoke and modular:

https://www.the-possible.com/long-held-dream-modular-construction-becoming-reality/

• Speed, efficiency and flexibility

• But it is not just speed and efficiency that makes modular an appealing urban solution. Architects have long been fascinated by the flexibility offered by modules, and the idea that buildings can be moved or added to, as if adapting organically to the fast-changing urban environment.

• Precedent, example of successful modular design: The Habitat 67 housing development, the Habitat 67 housing development, originally designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World Expo in Montreal. An experimental stacked arrangement of 354 concrete “boxes”, which together comprise 146 residences, its modular approach was intended to create an architecture that could multiply and mutate — Safdie was commissioned to replicate the design in various locations from New York to Puerto Rico.

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• Although none of these subsequent projects were ever realised, the idea of highly adaptable modular architecture lives on.

 

Markets in UK:

• 11% of UK homes have significant modular components.

• Modular may be known as being boxy, however this is not the case as architects are now using them to create many different colours and clever configurations of elements.

• Precedent, example of projects by developer urban splash such as:

 

The canal side 43-home Housing project in Manchester, designed in collaboration with architect shedkm, where residents are able to specify the internal layout within a uniform shell of timber frame, cool black metal pitched roofs and black-framed bay windows

 

• Paul Monaghan, partner at London-based architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

• Monaghan is an expert in the field:

 

His modular approach to both housing and education projects culminated in his practice winning the 2015 Stirling prize, UK architectures most prestigious award, for Bruntwood School in London.

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“Our most successful projects are the ones where we have teamed up with the manufacturer at an early stage and designed for their way if working” – Paul Monaghan

 

Bespoke elements:

Adapt Studios set the standards for architectural elements and modular adaptations of

pre-existing structures such as staircases. We work with you from design to installation

to create the perfect solution for you providing quality bespoke solutions for any room in

your home, forming a space that is truly yours. We can adapt any designs to any of your

rooms and our designers will work with you to provide individual solutions that are uniquely

yours because everything will be made exclusively to fit your home. We will precisely check

your room dimensions to ensure it fits giving you total piece of mind. Once you are happy

with the design, our in house CAD experts will produce technical drawings in detail for

our production team to start the work. As we will then provide modern technology to get

things done to the best standard and best price.

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