TY  - CONF
TI  - Design-Value in the Platform Approach
C1  -  Heraklion, Greece
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 349
EP  - 356
PY  - 2017
DO  - https://10.24928/2017/0033
AU  - Maxwell, Duncan W.
AU  - Aitchison, Mathew
AD  - PhD Candidate, Innovation in Applied Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, duncan.maxwell@sydney.edu.au
AD  - Associate Professor, Innovation in Applied Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, m.aitchison@sydney.edu.au
AB  - Lean production has responded to low-level customisation, but for residential construction, earlier customer input is required. The development of the ‘platform approach’ to industrialised house building has enabled high-level masscustomisation. Focus has been applied to ‘hard’ improvements regarding production efficiency, with less emphasis on ‘soft’ values associated with the intangible nature of design. Platform-thinking has demonstrated that new possibilities are emerging which may enable producers of industrialised housing to effectively deliver designvalue to end-users. This paper contributes to the developing platform approach, by investigating design-value for industrialised house building from an architectural perspective. Through an understanding of the product platform approach developed within the Swedish context, selected case-studies from outside construction demonstrate the possibilities that the platform-thinking concept holds, to address the research question; how can design-value be achieved in industrialised house building? Much design-value originates from interaction between designer and user, which has been overlooked in the development of the platform approach, yet by considering its conceptual basis of platform-thinking, new possibilities emerge for the delivery of design-value in product and process. The findings will enhance the development of platforms for industrialised house building.
KW  - Lean design
KW  - platforms
KW  - platform-thinking
KW  - design-value
KW  - architecture
PB  - 
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2017/07/09
CY  -  Heraklion, Greece
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1401/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1401
N1  - Export Date: 20 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -