Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission th…
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Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission th…
I love the idea of this project ( http://www.wikihouse.cc ) and will be watching
and, time abiding, joining in it’s efforts to succeed. I would love to see
designs flourish for quick, easy to build housing for those in need as well
as fun DIY projects for home and community development. #WikiHouse
Finally had time to start watching this. Wow! Just watch!
Another sign of a nehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt6kaNjoeIw economy
emerging and another free tool for the people who don’t make up the 2%.
unfortunately you can’t print land. still its good to see people thinking
outside of the box, i hope these type of opensource hardware projects gain
traction
Breathtaking.
Interesting talk. Make sure to check wikihouse.cc
Very good. Application asap, please.
cool idea.
skeptical comments ive read have some merit, time for them to contribute
soloutions..
using dimensional lumber and cnc joint cutters to make mortise and tenon
joins accurately sounds good to me.
i like the no nails thing..
oh and the idea of having a toy like the cnc machine in the garage too!
this hits on my two passions at once, design and social justice.
Loved it
Love this, it’s such a good idea I hope it takes off
I love CNC not so sure about plywood as a rafter material (or posts), a lot
of the fiber is going in the wrong direction, it has normally at least
333-66% of the fiber, not going in the direction of the loads in those
applications. You have poor nailing surfaces for cladding. You have to
consider what happens when repairs need to be made down the road, and there
is so little to work with. People need stuff to hang cabinets from, and
they will want to insert windows or doors during renovations. All this
requires something in the walls to tie into.
While the machinery like CNC can be distributed, the plywood (normally made
out of older growth veneer quality logs) is still coming from away. Since
the material will be shipped from away, and are already being purpose
configured for house building, what is the value of the CNC in all of this.
We already have localized intellectual and production capacity, since
housing represents around 20% of the economy.
In US a most of housing is built of wood. If it looks like Adobe, it is
probably wood framed; If it looks like stone, it is probably wood framed;
And the vernacular architecture in much of the country was always wood
framed. In places like the UK, they don’t think they are building in wood,
because the walls are often brick, though rafters and joints are
traditionally wood. In any case, when they turn their minds to building in
wood, they often come up with pretty weird solutions, as though the
technology to do this stuff well, was not actually in every big box
hardware, or lumber yard in NA, already.
Really interesting and worthwhile: open source as the basis for solving
architectural problems.
It is a noble and visionary concept; I would love to see it getting tweaked
and ‘hacked’ with different materials (contruction materials that are
available locally) and different house requirents. Hope this takes off !
great technolgy