PURPOSE NOW DISRUPTION POINT
H4a. New vernaculars Social justice
H1. A construction system
Construction method making it possible
HARDWARE for anyone to download, adapt /
customise and ‘print’ a house structure
which they can easily assemble. Like
open source LEGO or a custom IKEA.
D1. SketchUp plugin
Basic automation. One click generation
of cutting files from 3D model, but with
DESIGN APPS incomplete functions, inability to nest
parts efficiently onto sheets. Upload /
download integration.
Open Source Construction
A global commons providing to all the
capability to design, share, download,
adapt & locally manufacture & make
high-performance, low-cost hardware
suited to their place & needs.
P1. Basic website / model repo
A basic website with uploads /
PLATFORM
downloads library for 3D models, with
notes. Google groups for collaboration.
Constitutuion, open trademark license
for chapters etc. High media exposure.
Community approx 600.
Chapters 9
C1. Constitution
Open constitution and trademark
license for community. Formation of
chapters and pre-formation of
non-profit WikiHouse Foundation.
WikiHouse development goals.
Please download, comment, add, propose. hello@wikihouse.cc
View and edit the text of this document here (link to follow)
SCALE THE NEW NORMAL > IMPACTS
The democratisation of
H3a. Forking A new industrial norm for housing and urbanism, driven not the means of production.
Rapid adaptation, improvement and and addition-to of by one-size-fits-all development and development driven Housing, tools, cities,
products, food, energy.
construction system whilst continuously lowering thresholds of only by top-down financial capital, but bottom up urban Development vs scarcity.
time, cost and skill. This includes other structural system forks, development, with an expanding range of highly sustainable,
other construction technologies e.g Earthbag. healthy, economically empowering 21st century regional and
local vernaculars emerging. Housing crisis
Radical market change in
housing, legitimisation of
organic bottom-up,
H4b. A wikipedia of things citizen/user led urban
An expanding commons of high-performance, low-cost development driven by
social as well as financial
H2. First completed houses H3b. Full open source modular house design solutions shared under open license, democratising
Completed low-cost, high-performance houses passing building Development / integration of other open hardware towards a simple, modular
capital + debt, and real
economy as well as real
access to development capability, including construction, estate market.
regulations, structurally improved and inhabited, with full design open house system. e.g Furniture, materials, services, energy generation, products, infrastructure, tools (especially farming tools) etc. Transformative both in
files, costings, specification, instructions shared under CC license, sanitation, sensors, machines (parts are interchangable, and they go together Ref. Other open hardware projects such as OSE. West & emerging
economies.
and basic performance metrics to allow others to easily replicate. like lego) To create the first full open source house.
Diffusion of sustainable
technologies
D2a. Completed sketchUp plugin D3. An open API for full Open Building Information (OBIM) modelling D4a. Open operating systems Only means (besides
private debt, public debt
Final sketchup plugin / bridging into parametric design apps. Parametric apps are built on an open API to allow developer community to Open operating and data platforms for houses and cities or philanthropy) to
write / plug-in new extensions, expanding the depth & breadth of and the internet of things, based not on centralised data, diffuse sustainable
technologies and
functionality. These are hosted in a modular design app commons. but clear citizens’ data contracts, where citizens are in solutions to emerging
D2b. Nesting algorithm control of the data they provide to the commons, and to economies. eg. Off grid
energy, solar air
An algorithm for more efficiently nesting parts onto cutting layouts. Direct to manufacture what use it may be put. conditioning,
neighbourhood-scale
sanitation, open legal
Other construction types / hardware products templates etc,
D4b. Mobile apps
Applications for on-site data input, design
Costings / spec calculators and monitoring. Meets diffusion of mobile Open Innovation
phone technology. Leaps in efficiency and
Site topographic data effectiveness in design
and construction .
Creates a platform for
Energy performance D4b. Open source business & development models sharing and open
problem-solving to
Housing development models & business forms shared accelerate currently very
Structural performance in easy-to-use form, to allow others to easily replicate, backward norms in
architecture and
including process-design, protocols, financial plans and construction industries.
API Wiring, plumbing layout / kit systems legal documentation.
Width
Height
New civic institutions
Regulatory frameworks (e.g planning, building regs) As a byproduct, builds
D4b. Parametric legal tools
new institutions at a
community level (eg
Water management Work with governments to deploy open platforms and community factories,
village halls) but also at a
parametric design tools and legal codes to drive new global level, with citizens
Building operating systems economy, supported by rules-based certification, data contracts
contributing to new
regulation and planning legislation. Dramatically
D2c. Parametric customisation Documentation generators (eg. Instruction manuals)
business norms for data
improving government’s capability to act, devolve ownership and rights.
An easy-to-use, in-browser design tool which allows users to
powers appropriately and make lean, democratic
enter basic inputs to completely customise house design, size, - decision-making tools more everyday.
materials, manufacturing constraints etc. This outputs directly New political
to cutting files. See examples here: frameworks
Neighbourhood design Opportunity for political
http://mattermachine.com/app reform, such as
distributed, democratic
planning (decision
Co-design / planning tools D4b. Community factories
making) and
Open manuals / documentation / development.
P2a. Wiki-pages for hardware Frameworks which,
Open land data support for community factory model
A clean, editable wiki page & unlike direct
catalogue structure for clean
operating as open making labs, concentrated capitalism,
are Still functional in
village halls and learning institutions.
sharing of design solutions, with shrinking (eg rural
The buildings themselves are economies). This may
overall CMS and editing protocls. also include new forms of
P3a. App library copiable local prototypes and the
Page structure includes: parametric legal code.
Repo for all parametric apps, listing by type, region. institutions are accelerators for
1. Title, 2. Author .3.3D model view
learning, making copying and
(possibly with layers). 4.Description. Edit
NAME v0.0
innovating.
5.Instructional documentation
Author
Financially sustainable
(possibly including images and P3b. INDEXING FOR A WIKIPEDIA OF THINGS commons
Rather than be
video). 6. Costings & specification. 7. A fully developed and comprehensive system for indexing high-performance, dependent on donations
Status. 8. Downloads 9.Optional ‘tip’. low-cost design solutions. A new global commons democratising industrial P4a. Sustainable revenue model and philanthropic
investment only, an
10. Terms and conditions. 11. knowledge and tools – owned by everyone, accessible to anyone. Fully-developed permanent integration across the whole
License
integrated revenue
Comments & feedback. 12. Links to Terms & Conditions
platform of a clear, fair and stable revenue model to stream to support the
WikiHouse foundation.
References / forks. Ref. OTF cover costs of the WikiHouse Foundation. This may
include optional (but default) ‘tipping’ from users and
chapters providing goods and services over and above Digital infrastructure
P2b. WikiStudio P3c. A GITHUB OF THINGS the commons. for the third industrial
revolution
Cleaner community collaboration page, with conversation threads, Engines to manage pushing / pulling and ‘diffing’ of files through forks. Files /
Platform to lower
(possibly with #hashtags). Acid test: capable of supporting live projects tracked, coding understands the semantic conditions / issues relating (Subject to appropriate governance it may also include transaction costs and
make possible
meetings. to specific products, and authorship-chains can be traced. non-profit WikiHouse Foundation also itself hosting continuous, distributed
services over and above the commons.) design, manufacturing
and use.
P2c. Funding platform
An easy open framework for chapters to list funding requests and P3d. Open design / manufacturing directory
have them crowdfunded. (Kickstarter) Ref Goteo Directory of all designers & manufacters providing services.
Open economy
P4b. Open Derivative Economy New distributed markets,
Further tools / platforms to support, connect and accredit allowing small designers,
P2d. Website communication manufacturers, makers
P3e. Open governance an open derivative economy; that is all the designers,
Straightforward improvements to main website , user-experience of service providers to
Digital governance / decision-making tools allowing WikiHouse community to manufacturers and service providers selling commercial provide commercial
www.wikihouse.cc, including a map of all live chapters. Clearer links to services to a distributed
self-govern commons without any custodianship. goods and services over and above the commons.
FAQs, constitution/about, dev goals, legals, videos, news aggregator. economy.
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