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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp. de derm de derm de derdily derpy derm dumb

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  4. Re:Sounds cool and all... by stevejsmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apostrophes do not denote plurality. Don't use either. Use "circa 1900s." And with the time that it takes you to find the damn tilde key you could write out "circa." That was Steve's helpful hint of the day.

  5. Re:I dunno about this one by SN74S181 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pardon me, but sitting here living in this inexpensive but nice house I have that was built in 1900, this all sounds like Trailer Park stuff.

  6. Re:Dead by PaybackCS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haha.. That's one of the funniest things I've read all day.

    Thanks for the laugh.