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. This is for everyone. Over the last two decades the web has profoundly changed our economy and our society, putting the tools to produce information into the hands of everyone. We have moved from a world dominated by big, centralised
Over the last two decades the web has profoundly changed our economy and our society, putting the tools to produce information into the hands of
producers to one where the few big can be outperformed by the many small; the long tail. Think YouTube, Twitter, Linux, AirBnB, Wikipedia.
In the next decade that same digital revolution is coming to the way we produce physical things. Digital fabrication tools such as CNC machines and 3D printers are putting the capability to produce and control physical products into the hands of everyone. It has been called the ‘third industrial revolution’ and it’s going to transform our economy even more profoundly. Especially the way we design and build our homes and cities.
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WikiHouse is a digital building system, a kind of digital ‘Lego’ for homes. It makes it simple to design beautiful, sustainable, low-cost, homes that are customised to their user, within preset
Imagine being able to accurately estimate cost, performance, and even weight as you sketch. Then seamlessly producing manufacturing files and building information in seconds. The system is an open source language, which anyone can use, adapt or improve.
Watch a video demonstration here
£15,000
Cost Location UK
Your Home
WikiHouse components can be digitally manufactured not just in large centralised prefabrication factories, but by a distributed network of small businesses and makerspaces; using widely available tools & materials.
Centralised prefabrication
£5m factory setup cost Purpose built for one product No capacity to scale No resilience to demand gaps One employer in one town
Distributed manufacturing
£15k factory setup cost Many products on demand Limitless capacity to scale High resilience to demand gaps Jobs & capacity within local communities & economies
Each unique design can be rapidly assembled like a large IKEA kit, even by amateurs. A group of friends can assemble a home in days, to millimetre precision. You can choose how much of the work to do yourself and how much you need support with. Click here to watch a video.
View some example designs
Ultra low-energy Modular Affordable Low carbon materials Easy to maintain Customised to you Easy to build
£800/m
The WikiHouse system takes levels of energy performance, quality, precision and user- customisation that were previously prohibitively expensive, and dramatically lowers the thresholds
Smart
£12,500 Kit price, UK
£12,500 Kit price, UK
£45,000 Typical project cost
£150,000 Typical project cost
£95,000 Typical project cost
The aim: to develop a ‘full stack’ building system, bringing together low-energy solutions for every component of the home, from structures to services & sensors. This allows many companies to combine their innovations together to create the world’s best, most sustainable, low cost building systems, based on interoperable standards and design principles. Read the WikiHouse design principles here.
WikiHouse is now being developed by a passionate R&D community of 1000s of designers, engineers, inventors, coders & social entrepreneurs. These are supported by 35 chapters across the world, and counting.
Every major urban economy now faces a huge housing
about breaking our dependence on fossil fuels and debt, empowering smarter citizens and building resilient communities and healthy, sustainable, economically productive, liveable cities. If we’re serious about tackling the big design challenges of
for sustainable development: diffusing sustainable housing tools to every citizen & company on earth. View our TED talk here.
“The future is already here, it’s just not very distributed yet.” William Gibson
Since the Industrial Revolution, we have been dependent on big developers who buy the land and speculatively build rows and rows of ‘one-size-fits-all’ homes on our behalf. In almost all the world’s developed economies, those centralised systems & markets are now failing. Unaffordable, unsustainable, undemocratic, unresilient, unhealthy, debt-heavy and in many places unviable.
High risk debt Big developer Inefficient design process Outdated construction technologies One size fits all Unaffordable consumer debt
Local microfactories 1000s of micro / infill sites Rules-based planning & building codes Genuinely affordable custom build homes Upgrade / densification
Local jobs & skills Circular, low energy neighbourhoods Resilient communities Open performance data Base image courtesy of Rogue State Media Open source building technologies
Our aim: to build digital tools to unlock a new sustainable, resilient and scaleable housing industry: the ‘micro’
recognised by governments as the next mass-housebuilding industry and an engine for sustainable, affordable, democratic development in the 21st century. Cities made by and for everyone.
We have developed the first WikiHouse building technology and deployed it in early pilot projects. It works, and there is growing demand to use it. We now need to build the open web engine behind WikiHouse; to get better building tools into the hands of everyone. Its called the OpenChain.
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The OpenChain will be the first fully digital supply chain for buildings. This will be an industrial leap forward, replacing the guesswork, risk, paper drawings and endless emails that make up most of the costs & difficulties behind construction today with a direct, seamless, simple digital process from design to manufacturing to use. TM
Lenders Architects
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5 Manufacturers Project managers Builders Materials Inspectors Services Insurers
Supporting users through this process will be an
providing compatible products & services from architects to manufacturers, builders, project managers, certifiers, insurers and lenders. A kind of ‘Airbnb’ for custom building services.
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5 Open building systems Parametric construction languages Open building types Local vernaculars Open data Geographic data, regulations Project files Open Performance data Shared by users.
Behind the OpenChain will be libraries of open design solutions and data, licensed for anyone to use, add-to, adapt and improve. A kind of Wikipedia for buildings, unleashing collaboration and innovation in housing design. Imagine an economy where no problem ever needs to be solved twice, and a world where the best design solutions for basic sustainable development are common knowledge for everyone, always.
But no company can build this on its own. So we are forming a consortium of world-leading companies, organisations, government representatives and funders to share in the project and to build the shared infrastructure and open standards for the third industrial revolution in housing, from which all of us will benefit.
Architecture Property & finance Engineering Tech Manufacturing Supply-chain Legal Insurance Gov Construction Sustainable development org Housing org
WikiHouse Foundation is a non-profit startup based in the UK. Our purpose is to advance and coordinate the third industrial revolution in housing by developing open tools, shared infrastructure and open standards from which all benefit.
Architecture Zero zero Arup Engineering Climate KIC / Imperial College Momentum Engineering Nesta Space Craft Systems Suncorp Insurance TED Prize South Yorkshire Housing Association Alastair Parvin Communication / vision Product lead Sarah Gold Digital infrastructures UX Justyna Swat Communication Projects liaison Alex Whitcroft Openchain architecture Sustainable building Harry Knight Community host Operations Clayton Prest Parametrics lead Alex Kotenko Technical lead
Team
Stef Woznarowycz UX/UI design
Some of our partners & supporters so far
Matter machine Future Cities Catapult
InnovateUK
2016 2017 2018
New front end + community forum First prototype Alpha Launch v1.0 Beta
+ £200k match £250k + £500k 10 Beta providers 100 Beta providers 500 providers Chassis Proof of concept BUILDING SYSTEM GROWTH Open sensors & controls Open systems 5-8 storey PLATFORM Front end Testing Design Build Onboarding Pilots Neighbourhoods View the full, live-edited WikiHouse roadmap here.
Common purpose Because you’re already working on open, civic, sustainable technologies and methods, and WikiHouse fits into what you’re doing
R&D Co-develop new products / services for digital & distributed production or help develop new open standards that will benefit your business,
teams to solve your
Insight Identify early threats and
industry, gain insight into what the 3rd industrial revolution & the citizen sector are really going to mean. Don’t just take bets on disruptive technology, learn from it. First access to the OpenChain Be the first to sell your products or services through the OpenChain. Reach new
digital, distributed
tail’ is the world’s biggest housing industry. Global leadership Accelerate the growth & diffusion of better, healthier more affordable housing, open knowledge & innovation, better regulation, sustainable development, a circular economy, resilient communities & more democratic cities.
Use of consortium member logo Credited on website & communications Membership of online group First beta access to the OpenChain Attendance of annual seminar Keynote talk from founder at your organisation Attendance of annual partners group seminar Closed workshops / working groups with the core team, focused
Opportunity to set/host an R&D working group or open challenge Headline listing as a global partner of the WikiHouse project First opportunity to deploy your compatible product or service through the OpenChain Seat on the advisory board
enquiries@wikihouse.cc WikiHouse Foundation Unit 109b , 203-213 Mare Street London, UK UK non-profit 9152368 www.wikihouse.cc @WikiHouse
v1.4 CC-BY-ND 01/2016
Member Partner Global Partner £5k £15k £50k+
Introductory for 2016