Changing ideals continuing visions: prefabricated micro living unit experiments from 1960s-1970s and 2000s-2010s

In this research, prefabricated micro living unit experiments are examined over two historical periods, 1960s-1970s and 2000s-2010s. The aim of the study is to reveal the different motivations that resulted with a common production on the same housing typology in the context of socio economic, technological developments and popular culture. In addition to questioning whether the productions in the 1960s-1970s did turn into a common housing typology in their period or not, questioning the successful and unsuccessful aspects of these projects as well as identifying continuities and changes in the 2000s-2010s form the basis of this research. One of the aims is to reveal what role 1960s-1970s productions played in the 2000s-2010s. In order to achieve this aim, first of all, the historical development of prefabricated and micro living units was examined separately and the emergence of prefabricated micro living units as a housing typology was examined. Later, in chapter two the dynamics of the two historical periods are addressed separately through socio-economic, technological developments and popular culture and case studies of each period are introduced. Continuing visions and changing ideals between two historical periods spanning 1960s-1970s and 2000s-2010s are examined in chapters three and four. And finally, Volu-te, a prefabricated micro living unit developed under the Alternative Architectural Practices master's program, is located within the context of prefabricated micro living units in the 2000s-2010s