© 2007 Francis Loetterle. All Rights Reserved. FRANCIS LOETTERLE, Architect Specialist in modular design and planning Increased productivity, faster delivery, higher quality, lower cost and more profit by design Modular building design for single and multifamily housing projects Modular building design for elementary school projects Modular building systems design for light gauge steel inline framing, prefabrication and mass production Modular land use and infrastructure master planning for fast-track delivery of efficient and sustainable new communities Certified project management for design-build delivery of modular housing and schools Scheduling, estimating and proposal writing for mass housing projects Buildings, prefabricated and mass produced, can and should be indistinguishable from the very best examples of site-built architecture, every bit as functional, durable and beautiful; competitively priced, with inherently quicker delivery, and inherently superior control of quality and cost. Delivery times for prefabricated buildings are usually quicker than for conventional site-built construction because the buildings are manufactured in parallel with site preparation and improvement rather than after. Additional advantages of prefabrication, mass production and computer automation for design and delivery of mass housing are: purchasing and inventory efficiencies, better control of schedule and budget, more efficient use of labor and material, higher quality, lower prices and better design-build coordination in the factory and at the job site. The firm is organized to facilitate design-build teaming and to achieve optimal benefit from state-of-the-art automation for communication, information management and data processing. Clients are production homebuilder-developers and school agencies, public and private, foreign and domestic. When the program calls for repetition along with almost limitless application and variation, we design standardized systems of building components, panels, and modules, for prefabrication, mass production and multiple application. Components of these standardized systems may be combined and recombined in almost infinite variation to create many different houses or schools, each with a different site, different program, different concept of organization, and different master plan for phasing and growth. Mass Housing Design Principles And Prototypes, by Francis Loetterle, 118 pages, 55 drawings, $45.00. Click here to order This book addresses the design of efficient and sustainable mass housing. The principles and prototypes presented are the products of twenty-eight years research and practice. The design principles address: Efficiency and Sustainability, Open Architecture and Modular Design, Rational Building Systems, Cost and Affordability, and Speed. The prototypes are comprised of unbuilt projects and hypothetical exercises. Modular planning prototypes for mass housing are presented in addition to single and multifamily modular design prototypes. All of the mass housing prototypes employ light gauge steel construction, modular design, prefabrication and mass-production. Each prototype addresses an obvious and pressing housing problem that has not received much current recognition or tangible solution. Some examples of pressing problems addressed are urban infill and small scale redevelopment housing, low income senior citizen housing, working poor housing, especially in developing countries, war refugee and war recovery housing and disaster relief-recovery housing. The contents of this book should be of interest to all people, worldwide, involved in mass housing: planners, architects, engineers, students, teachers, housing and urban development agencies, disaster relief agencies, international development banks, redevelopment agencies, zoning code agencies, low cost housing mortgage lenders, production home builders and residential construction component manufacturers. Efficient and sustainable mass housing is a worldwide problem both critical and current. These mass housing principles and prototypes are presented in conjunction with the equally pressing and much larger problem of efficient and sustainable new neighborhoods, communities, towns and cities. The book is not a critique of what is but a series of suggestions concerning what to do instead. Back To Top Built By WebSight design