Web platform for the digital design and distributed manufacturing of homes

我们的城市在21世纪世纪面临着巨大的住房挑战：满足不断增长的城市化社会的需求，同时过渡到低能耗住宅和可持续发展的社区。解决方案是可用的，但目前的住房技术和经济无法部署和重新使用它们，因为我们的设计和建筑行业仍然被过时的，低效的方法和供应链所束缚。这个项目旨在通过为第一个完全数字化的建筑系统之一WikiHouse创建一个网络平台，将软件媒体转变为房屋建筑领域的同样的破坏：一个可定制的“数字乐高”，它可以完全参数化设计/编码，使用低成本的CNC工具在本地数字化制造，并以最低的技能（如宜家）快速自我组装，以非常可预测的成本创造美丽，精确建造，低能耗的房屋。该平台将支持世界上第一个从开始到结束的数字化设计和建筑制造过程，沿着自动化、软件和数据集成，以设计和编目每个项目。该平台包括：1。共享和版本控制平台，用于开放、协作共享设计文件作为开源代码（一种用于建筑设计的Github / Wikipedia，因此我们的名字）。2.建筑师的分布式市场，小型本地制造商和承包商使用theserver（想想Airbnb的建筑行业）。3.用于参数化设计和数字化制造的浏览器内数字化工具套件，全部集成到上述两个元素中。即使是这种平台的基本第一版也有可能非常具有破坏性。不仅仅是通过使高性能住宅的生产更简单，更快，更实惠，而是通过打破我们20世纪对集中，一刀切，大型工厂生产模式和预制供应链的依赖，为建筑行业带来“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.