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Open Source Housing

Posted by timothy on from the blueprints-are-software dept.

No_Weak_Heart writes "The latest issue of Metropolis magazine has an interesting look at the house of the future. The primary focus of the article is on MIT's House_n project and its offshoot - the Open Source Building Alliance. The article discusses potential benefits of adopting a modular, component-based, everyone's-invited approach to building. Houses built via interactive design stategies and mass-cutomization vs. single-purpose structures driven by one ideology."

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  1. As Microsoft would say... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 4, Funny

    If we use open source housing, soon all the burgulars will know the vulnerabilities of your house and be able to break in easier. Only by keeping housing plans secret can we keep them secure

  2. True Open Source Housing... by jki · · Score: 4, Funny
    everyone's-invited approach to building.

    I just read the local newspaper about a guy who breaks into peoples house when they are away - lives there for a couple of days (watching videos, sleeping in your bed, using your toiler and shower) without stealing anything concrete. Then, when done - he moves to next house. He has done this to dozens of times already, and has not been caught....now that's true open open source housing .)

  3. What's next? by eyeball · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's next? Open-sourced surgery? Open-sourced legal representation? Open-sourced sex!?!

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    1. Re:What's next? by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, sex was always open-source, it's just that it has conditions against /. crowd in the EULA of its license.

      What you really want is FSF, or Free Sex Foundation where sex is free not only as in speech but also as in beer (preferably)!

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  4. Design your own house, eh? by kingkade · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've seen some ghastly web pages created by 8-year old AOLers and housewives who sell knit mittens from their home in Montana. Can't imagine when we have some real winners designing their own house :)

    Seriously, though. Seems like technology combined with the homes systems is not only a great idea around for a while but will be more unavoidable.

    I;ve always thought that having one fiber optic line with phone, broadcast tv, inet access all accessible through on line. An having a central master computer controlling everything from programming tv shows (tivo-like) to the security system to controlling lights, heating for optimum energy savings (even depending on inhabitants current position in home and habits, by maybe even using integrated systems like the motion detection from the security system).

    Combined with solar/alternative fuels and increasing affordability of technology, it seems promising.

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  5. Open-sourced sex? by gatesh8r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell, if I can get it through the GPL and I can have it be from a woman... :-D

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  6. How about P2P Girlfriends! by RatBastard · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about P2P Girlfriends?

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  7. Here's the guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    True. Exclusive image of the guy. He could only be identified by a three letter recursive acronym written to the walls of all houses he has lived.

  8. Re:The pattern language book by Raven1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Military Housing. Depressing, run down cookie cutter houses. Yeah, no.