ExoSett component
Accommodation cassette
An accommodation cassette is a removable three-dimensional unit designed to be installed in a cell within an ExoSett accommodation frame.
ExoSett uses the term cassette for the removable unit often called an accommodation module or volumetric module in conventional modular construction. This modular accommodation can be a hotel room, a room in a home, a workspace, classroom, treatment room, kitchen, clinical facility or another kind of occupied or functional space. Each cassette is supported independently by the accommodation frame.
How it works
An accommodation cassette can be manufactured and substantially fitted out away from the building before being delivered and installed. It may arrive with internal finishes, windows, furniture, sanitary fittings, appliances and building services already in place.
The cassette connects to the accommodation frame for support and restraint, and to the service frame for access and utilities. These connections are designed so that the cassette can later be safely disconnected and removed.
A single cassette may provide a complete room or compact dwelling. Cassettes in adjacent cells may also be connected to create larger homes, rooms or spaces extending across several floors.
Because the accommodation frame provides the primary structural support, an individual cassette can be removed, replaced, refurbished or relocated without removing the principal support for the cassettes around or above it.