Foldable Wall Modular House with Multi-Frame Openings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current prefabricated housing solutions lack adaptability to customer preferences, require extensive on-site finishing, and face transportation challenges due to size restrictions and legal permits, limiting their flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A modular prefabricated house system with foldable walls and multi-frame openings that can be configured in various layouts, allowing modules to be joined in multiple configurations, reducing manufacturing costs and enabling adaptable designs without compromising functionality or increasing shipping costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If modular housing is constructed in a factory and shipped onsite, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but transportation requires wide load permits and special permits increasing cost and complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The house is divided into multiple modular sections that can be manufactured separately in a factory and transported independently. Each module is designed to fit within standard shipping container dimensions, eliminating the need for wide load permits and special transportation regulations while maintaining high manufacturing efficiency through factory production.
2Ease of manufacture
If modular housing is designed with fixed layouts, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but customer adaptability and layout flexibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The modular housing system incorporates movable and reconfigurable walls within each module, allowing customers to change interior layouts after purchase. The modules themselves can be repositioned and reconnected in different configurations, providing long-term adaptability while maintaining simple factory manufacturing processes for the basic module structures.
Solution Approach 2:
Each module is designed as a universal building block that can serve multiple functions and be connected in various configurations to create different house layouts. The standardized interfaces and multi-functional design elements allow the same module type to be used in different positions and orientations, providing customer flexibility without requiring custom manufacturing for each layout variation.
3Ease of manufacture
If trailer homes are sized to fit standard transport dimensions, then transportation cost is reduced, but interior space and functionality are limited
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of attempting to fit a complete house within standard transport dimensions, the solution segments the house into multiple smaller modules that individually fit within standard shipping container sizes. Multiple modules are then connected on-site to create the desired total interior volume, effectively eliminating the transportation size constraint while achieving cost-effective standard dimension shipping.
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AI summary
A prefabricated house including two or more modules, each module having one or more foldable walls. The foldable walls have one or more multi-frame openings. The two or more modules are structured to be joined at one of the one or more multiframe openings.