{"id":4176,"date":"2019-02-19T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/wikihouse-the-open-source-diy-home\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:29:47","slug":"wikihouse-the-open-source-diy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/materials\/wikihouse-the-open-source-diy-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Free: Download a Construction Kit to Build Your Own &#8220;WikiHouse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><i>Architects: Showcase your next project through\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/architizer.com\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Architizer<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0and sign up for our\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/architizer\/newslettersubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>inspirational newsletter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>During the 2015 edition of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondesignfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Design Festival<\/a>, UK architecture firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecture00.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">00<\/a> (pronounced \u201czero zero\u201d) took over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Building Centre<\/a>\u2019s lawn and erected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecture00.net\/wikihouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikihouse<\/a>. An architectural experiment in digital DIY, it\u2019s an open-source set of online blueprints that can be downloaded, CNC-milled, and like a large-scale, 3D jigsaw puzzle, erected by \u201ca team of amateurs\u201d in as quickly as a day.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2019, and this pioneering project is alive and well: the latest iteration of the WikiHouse is <a href=\"https:\/\/wikihouse.cc\/library\/types\/microhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free to download<\/a>, including .dxf files, a Sketchup model and a comprehensive construction manual to make Ikea\u00a0aficionados weep. This most up-to-date design is dubbed the Microhouse \u2014 a\u00a0&#8220;high-performance, one-bed house type&#8221; using the WREN construction system and structural-grade plywood materials.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49491\" style=\"width: 1900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49491\" class=\"lazy lazy_media_item wp-image-49491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.26.54-AM.jpg\" alt=\"wikihouse microhouse\" width=\"1890\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.26.54-AM.jpg 1890w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.26.54-AM-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.26.54-AM-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.26.54-AM-1024x537.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1890px) 100vw, 1890px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wikihouse &#8220;Microhouse&#8221; template<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>What urban issues catalyzed the WikiHouse project? In London, it\u2019s a question of demand outpacing supply: The city needs to build 800,000 new homes over the next decade, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoncouncils.gov.uk\/policylobbying\/housingplanning\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projections by London Councils<\/a>, but only 25,000 annually are slated for construction. Elsewhere, cities are suffering an explosion in rent: San Francisco rates rose <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zumper.com\/2014\/12\/san-francisco-apartment-rents-rose-by-13-5-in-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13.5 percent in 2014 alone<\/a>. In Brooklyn, an affordable housing complex with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20141230\/williamsburg\/70000-people-apply-for-38-affordable-apartments-williamsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">38 units received 70,000<\/a> applications.<\/p>\n<p>The architectural community\u2019s solutions have included micro-mini units and prefabricated modules, but WikiHouse is one of the few to propose letting people download and build their homes themselves, in addition to uploading their own designs. Open-source, online architecture seems to be a logical step, given the way that Internet self-publishing is already ubiquitous in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/?mid=~msem~cgoogle~aLulu_Books&amp;s_kwcid=TC|1027418|lulu%20com%20books||S|b|52506409941&amp;atrkid=V1ADW5FE5C432-8816802741-k-lulu%20com%20books-52506409941-b-g-m-1t1&amp;gclid=CO2FrLyUnMQCFQSRfgodjgUArw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw this future playing out where the web and digital manufacturing combine,\u201d explained 00 principal Alastair Parvin. \u201cIt\u2019s been given a name, the \u2018third industrial revolution,\u2019 by Jeremy Rifkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49492\" style=\"width: 1810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49492 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-16_1223fer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-16_1223fer.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-16_1223fer-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-16_1223fer-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-16_1223fer-1024x437.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>00&#8217;s team flew across to Queens in New York to build a WikiHouse for World Maker Faire 2013<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The use of the word \u201crevolution\u201d and reference to an industrial theorist highlights how this project tackles the issue of affordable housing politically as much as it does structurally. In 2012, Parvin actually published (independently, online, for you to download and read for free) \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/alastairparvin\/docs\/2011_07_06_arighttobuild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Right to Build<\/a>,\u201d a treatise on how \u201cself-build\u201d can put an end to the UK\u2019s housing crisis, of which Wikihouse is a physical manifestation.<\/p>\n<p>But how viable is it really to build a community downloaded from the Internet? Parvin spoke to Architizer back in 2015 about the logistics of the project and where exactly Wikihouse fits into the revolution.<\/p>\n<p><b>Architizer: Your book, \u201cA Right to Build\u201d was an investigation into the UK housing crisis. What conclusions did you come to?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alastair Parvin: One of the reasons why I became interested in the housing crisis is that it\u2019s happening in countries like America or Britain. They are some of the wealthiest nations on earth, and yet in Britain we are building some of the smallest houses, or the second-smallest houses in Europe. Why do we have a housing crisis when we are supposed to be wealthy?<\/p>\n<p>Since the industrial Revolution, the assumption has basically been that the only people who can produce quality stuff in an effective way are massive organizations and corporations, whether that was the market or the state. When we talk about the housing crisis, which we know in the UK is primarily a crisis of land and infrastructure that leads to massive inflation, you\u2019ve still got governments going, \u201cOh, let\u2019s get more land for the house building companies, the developers.\u201d And they won\u2019t use it, because they have fundamentally misunderstood their business model.<\/p>\n<p>A developer will only build when it is profitable to do so, so even if we gave them loads of land, they would still only release houses on to the market at the speed that keeps prices high. Custom builders do not build only when it is profitable. They build when they want a house, which is all the time. So, the heart of this whole thing is that question: Who builds our homes? The assumption is that it must be these big or organizations, and what we\u2019re arguing is that these new technologies that is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49494\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49494 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1425865754959wikihouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1425865754959wikihouse.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1425865754959wikihouse-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 368px, (max-width: 625px) 625px, 1140px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Erecting the WikiHouse jigsaw puzzle; via the Building Centre<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b> It sounds like a mission to democratize architecture for the masses. But when you remove architects from the equation, aren\u2019t people left with just <i>buildings<\/i>? Does the system actually deprive people of architecture, of the expressiveness of it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I reject your distinction between architecture and buildings. This idea that somehow architecture should celebrate itself as rarified art is rubbish. What we want to do is allow architects the ability to think creatively and constructively about design, and to diffuse that to more people, to reconnect users and good design in a much more expanded marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly something like WikiHouse is a system, like Lego. It\u2019s a set of rules, but within those rules you can design almost anything. The great thing about open source is that if you want to take the design and improve it, or do something new with it, you can. I\u2019m excited to see what people will do with it. Some people will design for themselves, but most people will probably go to an architect whom they couldn\u2019t afford for the six months or whatever it requires to do a kind of grand design. But they could afford to hire an architect for a few weeks, or a few days even.<\/p>\n<p>You could go to an architect and say \u201cdesign me a house, but design me a house from this system that I know is going to work.\u201d The architect can spend less time worrying about if he is going to get through building regulations or is it going to leak, and he can spend more time on what you call those expressive or personal aspects of design and really understand the end user. Architects and the world in general have a huge amount to gain giving the end user, the citizens, more power to procure and design architecture.<\/p>\n<p><b> So you don\u2019t envision a WikiHouse future of cookie-cutter houses?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No, it\u2019s the opposite. They are literally made by a very specific cookie cutter, but the point is that you can now have customized and bespoke at the same price as you could have something identical. Everyone is so used to this world where housing is made by a single company that produces hundreds of homes for this imaginary average person. It makes much more sense to do it the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>If I get a technology that can prefabricate a house at twice the speed at half the cost of an ordinary house, and give that to a developer, they are still going to sell the house at the same price that in that area, whereas if you put that same technology into the hands of the end user, you can get a better, cheaper house. The only person who has a real direct incentive to put more insulation in the walls, or whatever it might be to really attend to the quality and sustainability of that home, is the person who is going to be living there and paying the heating bills.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49496\" style=\"width: 1690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49496\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49496 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about.png 1680w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about-1024x640.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The WikiHouse is designed to be customized by each user to create forms that fit their needs; via WikiHouse<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b> Where does WikiHouse fit with existing architecture \u2014 in the literal, physical sense? Where do you put them? Will they be in an areas that are designated for WikiHouses?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, they might be. The great thing about open-source is that you don\u2019t know all the uses that people mind find. WikiHouse is a growing platform with a variety of technologies. Not just CNC-cut structures, but now its got ventilators, plug-and-play services, off-grid energy, and things like that. It\u2019s going to be an increasing range of construction technologies, not just one.<\/p>\n<p>One immediate use that some people will find is for small micro-houses built in their garden and extensions to their homes. Because it\u2019s very lightweight and can be flatpacked, I imagine people will start developing designs to be built on a rooftop to densify existing buildings. London I think is particularly a strong candidate, unlike New York, where a lot of the rooftops have really been mined out to make roof gardens or whatever.<\/p>\n<p><b> When you describe that, it sounds like a one-unit-at-a-time solution, yet you use the word \u201cdensity.\u201d Can you impact a shortage of housing if you build one-by-one?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We did a little calculation on what the housing shortage was in the UK. We worked out that we could build the number of homes that we need either if we made huge cities, or alternatively, if every street in Britain added one house. There is no reason that this technology can\u2019t be used in groups to make a whole neighborhood, and I think it will quite soon. You will see groups come together and make a community facility or a central building first, which has the CNC machine in it. Then that machine cuts the homes on site.<\/p>\n<p><b> When you describe these WikiHouse communities, do you imagine who lives there? In my mind it can go in two ways: It can become a class marker, where you have affordable housing that those type of people live in, or it\u2019s populated by DIY hipsters. Do you think there will be a time when it can enter the mainstream?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my objective. At the moment people have these two categories in their mind: Attractive, interesting architecture for rich people and one-size-fits-all boxes for poor people. It doesn\u2019t stack up. Everyone needs a home. We want to develop technologies that are affordable, but that everyone can look at and go, \u201cThat\u2019s beautifully designed.\u201d One of the things about open-source is that you don\u2019t design for other people in other countries whom you don\u2019t understand and whose economies you don\u2019t know. You design to solve the problem where you are and then share the solution. Share globally, build locally.<\/p>\n<p>An immediate base for WikiHouse are those people who aren\u2019t super wealthy, but are also not super poor. You have to be really rich before you\u2019re not screwed by the current housing crisis in the UK.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49495\" style=\"width: 1747px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49495\" class=\"lazy lazy_media_item wp-image-49495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikihouse.jpg\" alt=\"wikihouse microhouse\" width=\"1737\" height=\"1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikihouse.jpg 1737w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikihouse-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikihouse-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikihouse-950x1024.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1737px) 100vw, 1737px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Additional components like insulation, plumbing and electrical outlets come together to create a useable home; via WikiHouse<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b> That structure that was in the lawn of the building center \u2014 how far or how close is that to being a viable thing for people to just start using?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well the structure is there, but the first caveat is that our web platform needs development. That\u2019s what we are going to be working on. Secondly, getting a system through building regulations is quite doable, but what tends to be a bit slower are mortgage providers and warranty providers. They tend to be more conservative when it comes to innovative technologies. So it will be another cycle, or a year or so before mortgage providers will recognize that the system works, that the technology is there, for the web platform to catch up. In a way, it\u2019s really not so innovative. It\u2019s just vernacular with an Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p><b> On that last note: The Internet has provided people an extraordinary ability to publish whatever they want, which results in a lot of self-professed curators and authors and journalists. Are people now going to be under the illusion that they are architects?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a functional illusion I have no problem with. I can\u2019t say that people won\u2019t make daft bits of design \u2014 I love the fact that people might make something ugly \u2014 but I am more interested in people than design.<\/p>\n<p><em>To download your own WikiHouse construction kit, <a href=\"https:\/\/wikihouse.cc\/library\/types\/microhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Architects: Showcase your next project through\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/architizer.com\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Architizer<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0and sign up for our\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/architizer\/newslettersubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>inspirational newsletter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This open-source construction kit can be turned into a home in just one 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