Bruce Bell, Jan Balbaligo and Pedro Hurtado Silva from the Facit Homes team will be giving a talk on Digitally Manufactured Architecture.
Facit Homes are the world’s first home manufacturer to use a purely digital design and production process. Since featuring on Grand Designs as “the world’s first computer-cut house”, Facit have gone on to become an established, industry-leading company, delivering award-winning homes across the UK.
Facit employ a digital manufacturing approach, where data is used to control every process. Facit design every element of their homes in a 3D computer model that generates key data, from material quantities and prices to the size of each window and position of every light switch. Facit use computer-controlled machinery to guarantee fast, efficient, and precise production - achieving incredible levels of accuracy, complexity and sustainability.
Facit avoid the complex logistics and expense of factory-based assembly, and the vehicular access requirements of large modules. A Facit Home is assembled on site. Every part is produced ‘just in time’ to be sequentially installed, with the traditional chaos of a building site becoming a thing of the past.
On Thursday, we will be joined by three members of the Facit team. Bruce Bell (Founder and CEO) will discuss the invention and principles of the system, Pedro Hurtado Silva (Head of Product Development) will discuss the technical complexities, and Jan Balbaligo will discuss how she coordinates the construction process on site.
How to join
Facit will be giving their talk in person in Room M416 at Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS.
The talk will also be live-streamed; watch the livestream on the event Panopto page.
There is no need to register for this event.
About the Technical Studies Lecture Series
The Technical Studies Open lecture program (part of University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and Cities) is an open lecture series where architects, engineers, writers, social theorists and artists are invited to take part in a discussion about the social use and function of technology in the context of design.
For further details please visit the Technical Studies website, which also contains details of previous lectures in the series.
For more details, contact Will McLean at [email protected].
