ABSTRACT

Interior design and construction (IDC) is a sophisticated and often prolonged process that delivers a building to occupation. Traditional practice is rather unproductive, involving the work of several different trades crowded in situ and delivered sequentially one after another. To enhance productivity in IDC, offsite practice is receiving increasing attention as a process innovation along with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), an emerging concept in the industry. This paper aims to investigate offsite IDC practice and develop a set of DfMA enablers for better achieving this building process. It undertakes a literature review, case study, and 18 semi-structured interviews. To support the offsite IDC and its production line, standardized procedure, automated machinery, and supply chain, 10 DfMA enablers are adopted, such as early collaboration, design standardization and simplification, and light material selection. These findings indicate a paradigm shift not only in interior design methodology but also in IDC professional practice process. This research enriches the literature on DfMA and IDC, in particular their synergy, and offers a new model for interior designers and offsite IDC practitioners.

摘要

室内设计和施工 (IDC) 是一个复杂且经常延长的过程，可将建筑物交付使用。传统的做法是相当低效的，涉及多个不同行业的工作，它们挤在原地，一个接一个地依次交付。为提高 IDC 的生产力，异地实践作为一种流程创新与行业中新兴的制造和装配设计 (DfMA) 一起受到越来越多的关注。本文旨在调查异地 IDC 实践并开发一组 DfMA 促成因素，以更好地实现这一构建过程。它进行文献回顾、案例研究和 18 次半结构化访谈。为支持异地IDC及其生产线、标准化流程、自动化机械和供应链，采用了10个DfMA使能器，如早期协作、设计标准化和简化、轻质材料选择等。这些发现不仅表明了室内设计方法论的范式转变，也表明了 IDC 专业实践过程的范式转变。这项研究丰富了关于 DfMA 和 IDC 的文献，特别是它们的协同作用，并为室内设计师和非现场 IDC 从业者提供了一种新模式。