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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. Not new by r_j_prahad · · Score: 1, Troll

    We have a large community of open-source housing here. Every few months though, the neighbors start to complain, and then the city makes them pack up the tents and fold up the cardboard boxes and move underneath a different bridge to stay out of the rain. No big deal, we got lots of bridges to keep moving them to.

    Shantytown's much smaller now than it used to be, I think maybe they're all wintering in Arizona? In their time-share vacation boxes....