ABSTRACT
Future Adaptive Building (FAB) is a new housing option for twenty-first-century seniors. It is an interior system of design, construction, and inhabitation that can adapt to meet changes in lifestyle, physical health, and cognitive ability. FAB supports the dynamic realities of long -term aging-in-place across the full spectrum of housing types. Living in a FAB house can significantly delay, and sometimes even eliminate, this tipping point between individual capacity and environmental challenge. The mass customization and design democratization strategies underlying the FAB system allow each house to be dynamically adjusted to the unique and ever-evolving needs, and abilities, of its resident. FAB modular is a system of prefabricated cabinetry components that replace the fixed interior site-built walls typically used in residential construction to define the spaces within a home. The components include kitchen and bath cabinetry as well as freestanding closets, bookshelves, and display units.
