Web platform for the digital design and distributed manufacturing of homes

我们的城市在21世纪面临着巨大的住房挑战：既要满足日益增长的城市化社会的需求，又要过渡到低能耗住宅和可持续的居民区。解决方案是可用的，但当前的住房技术和经济未能部署和重复使用它们，因为我们的设计和建筑行业仍然落后，效率低下的方法和供应链。该项目旨在通过为第一批完全数字化的建筑系统之一--维基之家--创建一个网络平台，将软件媒介转变为住宅建筑领域的那种破坏，从而产生一个可定制的“数字乐高”，它可以完全参数化地设计/编码，使用低成本的数控工具在本地数字制造，并以最低的技能快速自组装(如宜家)，从而产生美丽、精确、该平台将支持世界上第一个从开始到结束的建筑数字化设计和制造过程，以及设计和编目每个项目所需的自动化、软件和数据集成。该平台包括：1.共享和版本化平台，用于开放、协作地共享设计文件作为开源代码(一种建筑设计的Github/Wikipedia，因此得名)。建筑师、当地小型制造商和使用该系统的承包商的分布式市场(想想建筑行业的Airbnb)。用于参数设计和数字制造的浏览器内数字工具套件，所有这些工具都集成到上述两个元素中。即使是这样的平台的基本的、第一个版本也有可能非常具有颠覆性。不仅是通过让高性能住宅的生产变得更简单、更快、更负担得起，还通过打破20摄氏度对集中式、一刀切的大工厂生产模式和预制供应链的依赖，为建筑业带来“第三次工业革命”。

Our cities face a huge housing challenge in the 21st century: to meet the needs of a growing,urbanising society, yet at the same time transition to low energy homes & sustainableneighbourhoods. Solutions are available, yet current housing technologies & economies fail todeploy & re-use them because our design & construction industries remain locked behindoutdated, inefficient methods & supply chains.This project aims to bring the same sort of disruptions that have transformed software mediainto the domain of housebuilding, by creating a web platform for one of the first fully digitalbuilding systems, WikiHouse: a customisable ‘digital lego’, which can be fully parametricallydesigned/encoded, digitally fabricated locally using low cost CNC tools & rapidly selfassembledwith minimum skill (eg IKEA), resulting in beautiful, precision built, low-energyhomes at a very predictable cost.The platform will support the world’s first start-to-finish process for the digital design &fabrication of buildings, along with the automation, software & data integrations necessary todesign & catalogue each project. The platform consists of:1. Sharing & versioning platform for open, collaborative sharing of design files as opensource code (a sort of Github / Wikipedia for architectural design, hence our name).2. Distributed marketplace of architects, small local manufacturers & contractors using thesystem (think Airbnb for the construction industry).3. Suite of in-browser digital tools for parametric design & digital fabrication, all integratedinto the above 2 elements.Even the basic, first version of such a platform has the potential to be very disruptive. Not justby making the production of high performance homes much simpler, faster & moreaffordable, but by breaking our 20thC dependence on centralised, one-size-fits-all, big factoryproduction models & supply chains for prefabrication, bringing the ‘third industrialrevolution’ to the construction industry.