Building in Craft: A Community Founded and Sustained with Industry

Abstract

This thesis integrates research of factory-based production and design and building with heavy-timber into the composition of a production facility that serves as a generator and resource for a neighborhood. The “factory”, in this conception, is an urban model that engages a community in craft; an origin and a source, which serves first as a producer of building components and systems and endures as a center of information and activity.