Not Quite Walls: Soft Partitions for Adaptive Homes

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2024-04-17
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This thesis proposes a new type of home that adapts to the resident’s ever-changing needs by leveraging lightweight textile partitions within a completely open floorplan. Currently, when our homes no longer match our needs, we have three options: suffer in place, move to a new home, or remodel. The never-ending struggle to find a home that fits has a tremendous impact on our housing stock, our wallets, our waste streams, and our social networks. This thesis demonstrates the possibility of a home that adapts to the user, letting them save resources, stay in the neighborhood they love, age in place, and indulge their creative instincts.

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Master of Architecture
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Adaptive architecture, textile partitions, flexible partitions, housing
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Atkinson, Rachel. Not Quite Walls: Soft Partitions for Adaptive Homes. (2024). Masters thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116069

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