The Modular VZ window
摘要整理
Currently the building construction industry is still using its traditional way to make buildings and leads to several issues, high energy consumption, more waste than needed, less profit, not optimized and high failure cost. This is because each and every building is unique and the wheel is reinvented for every designed building. The reason of traditional building is rooted in the process of thinking in the building construction industry, because the client wants to have a building designed according to his wishes. However the client lacks knowledge to make a building. This knowledge has to be giving by advisors who will give advice each of them in the flow of the process. This will lead to an accumulation of knowledge instead of an integration of it. This design is then delivered to the contractor who tries to build the design in the cheapest way possible. Whereas the subcontractor needs to deliver the best price for his services. So the manufacturer need to focus on marketing to make profit and their main focus is on selling their own product. When we are looking at the different kind of production industries like car, computer, airplane industry. They keep improving their products while keeping the structure of their products the same. This process need to be introduced to give the building industry more standardization, flexibility and integration while keeping each building unique. The building are kept up to date whereas the buildings that are built now, are already older than the current technical level. The next problem is the energy consumption of the current building stock and the future created buildings. The building sector is using 40% of the energy generated and can be potentially reduced by combining the different expertise’s together in one product. That is why the following window product is developed to answer the needs of these occurring problems. A usual building construction process follows the following scheme: A problem needs to be solved -> solutions are developed -> a product is designed and produced. However looking at different other industries e.g. the mobile phone. An idea is created by doing a research on what the market wants. With this information the demands are made to specify the scope of the design and through an elimination of concepts, a design is created that will satisfy the need of the market. Currently the architect search for all these different product and combine these together. This makes every product unique and the change of failure is higher than when an integrated product can be used. When it does fail, the different product manufactures start blaming each other about who caused the problems instead finding the solution. This change of process is introduced in the modular window product whereas the architect has the freedom to design, form, specify his own preferences while the product is tested and the chance of failing will be limited. By introducing this product, the building construction industry will be able to improve the building while reducing the amount of waste and impact to the environment. Through this integrated approach, there will be more user satisfaction, flexibility in the façade and more profit for all the stakeholders involved in the process. The modular window concept integrates sun shading and ventilation as modular elements in the window. This is done by creating a functional gap on top of the standard window. So the window stays free for the architect to play with in an aesthetic way, while the functions can be attached directly or on a later stage of the life cycles. The advantages lies that sun shading will not interfere with the ventilation system when placed later and the product is adaptable.