Predicting Future Urban Housing Frontage Typology: Building Facade as the Interface of Transport, Logistics, and AEC 4.0

摘要

Online parcel delivery service is one of the emerging evidences of Society 4.0 formation. In the near future, with increasing road traffic volume, night delivery to the houses become commonly found. The service is combined with e-money apps, IoT for logistics delivery compartment, and building automation that eliminate human interaction. This mechanism might lead to the evolution of housing facade as interface between secured interior and publicly accessible exterior environments. This trend presents a contradiction problem in designing facade of the houses, in which to ease the parcel delivery the interior must be as close as possible with the road; however, it might break the building set-back regulation. To predict the future typology of housing facade and frontage area a model solution of Contradiction Matrix from Altshuller was applied to investigate possible general solution to derive building typology. Based on the matrix analysis three Inventive Principles have been recommended, those are Asymmetry, Dynamics, and Another Dimension. For each principle a set of specific design was generated and evaluated based on the cost of parcel delivery, cost of double handling process and cost of regulation. Finally, the least cost solutions were used to predict the most acceptable housing frontage typology.