Scalable modular apartment building

How homes should look like in contemporary times? As the world transforms, develop and expand our houses did not change much over last century. Therefore our general approach in perceiving the product “house” is to consider it as something structurally old, something that cannot be at the same level of modernity of all other products we use today. That is why it is the moment for architects to think forward and imagine a new way to conceive and live the house. Concept of flexible, modular, scalable buildings for housing and common facilities combined with the re-use of dismissed spaces has been the starting point of the project. Building which can provide new functions and offer flexibility to modifications for the future users. “Plug-in building” is composed by prefabricated apartment modules which features can be easily chosen online, in the same way you would choose a new phone or car. Scalability allows the users to extend their house according with the changes that occur in their life. Users can easily transform the house, order new room or change bedroom to the office or add bathroom and kitchen and create two apartments from one. Which could happened by few clicks of mouse or smartphone application and be delivered, plugged and ready to use in few days. The plug-in technological concept is based on the possibility of inserting prefabricated apartment modules in the mother structure of the building itself. You can image to insert your apartment in the structure, as you would put a book in your library; you can remove and change it whenever you want and your old module will be recycled and re-used. Main target of this thesis work is to update the concept of our houses and to fill the huge gap existing between their nature and the new lifestyle in which we are living today.