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3D Modular construction is poorly known and scarcely published in technical literature. In spite of that there are an increasing number of manufacturers offering their products in different countries. This method has largely evolved from early examples such as the American Gold Rush prefabrication in the nineteenth century, the Sears precut homes or Voisin’s prototypes for modular homes, to the end of the first half of the twentieth century. In this period a non negligible number of attempts in 3D modular construction have been carried out, ranging from theoretical proposals to several hundred or thousand units produced. Selected examples of modular architecture will be analysed in order to illustrate its technical evolution, concerning materials, structure, transportation and on site assembly. Success and failure factors of the different systems will be discussed. Conclusions about building criteria shown in them and their applicability in current architecture will be drawn.
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Ovando-Vacarezza, G., Lauret-Aguirregabiria, B., Lirola-Pérez, J., Castañeda-Vergara, E. (2014). Technical Evolution of 3D Modular Construction from the Nineteenth Century to World War II. In: Llinares-Millán, C., et al. Construction and Building Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7790-3_16
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