Framtida husbyggen: En studie om hur kataloghus kan uppnå god bostadskvalitet

The study is carried out as a degree project by two students studying the programme Building Technology: Building Design with Architecture at the School of Engineering in Jönköping. The work is written in collaboration with the company Skövdevillan AB, which is active in house manufacturing in the Skaraborg area. The study aims to investigate a selection of their house models and improve them based on defined achitectural housing qualities. The main methodological approach for the work is design thinking, which aims at problem solving and putting the user at the centre to approach the problem. For each research question, different methodological choices and data collection techniques will be applied to achieve the desired result. Methods used are explanatory survey, case study and design research while data collection techniques used are interviews and the MAB analysis tool resulting in design proposals supported by a questionnaire. A thematization of the interview material resulted in seven themes regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the different floor plans from a housing perspective. These themes were, for example, open floor plans and storage. The work is based on MAB, Manual for analysing housing qualities in villas, which assesses eleven architectural housing qualities. The manual is an adjusted version of MAB, Manual for analysing housing qualities, originally created by research architects from Chalmers University of Technology. All three villa recieved an overall rating of bronze based on the MAB´s limit values, which shows clear potential for improvement. The new design proposals for the three floor plans recieved an overall rating of gold based on the same limit value as previous analyses. It was noted from the interviews that some parts of the floor plans need to be improved, which was also confirmed by the MAB analyses of the original floor plans. New floor plan proposals were developed to fulfil more housing qualities. The MAB that is the starting point of the work is based on research on housing qualities, which gives the work basic premises and a method for comparison. At the same time, for example, more research on residents' perceptions of villas could have been included more to create a diverse approach. In general, the study contributes to social sustainability by creating pleasant housing and economic sustainability by efficiency improvement of floor plans in new construction.