1. OPEN CHALLENGE
Open Invitation
Feb 2013

2. v3.0, 2013

3. WikiHouse is an Open Source construction set. The
aim is to make it possible for anyone to design, share
and download homes which are adapted to their needs
and can be cheaply ‘printed’ and assembled without
formal construction skills or tools.
What next? After a year and a half of prototyping, and
with a growing community, WikiHouse needs:
1 Improved software tools, to disruptively lower
thresholds of time, skill and cost. 2 An improved
community infrastructure, supporting mass
collaboration. 3 Projects by individuals and
organisations to build the first fully-inhabited houses.
4 An open challenge to build and expand a broader
global design commons, exploring open technologies
and materials; owned by everyone, accessible to
anyone.
We are looking for
Community Designers, programmers, makers,
engineers & inventors who also think that open
construction is a problem worth solving. Partners
Building or research projects interested in using
WikiHouse or developing it. Funders Funds to help us
support the community and resource a full-time
development team, and sponsorship towards the Open
Challenge to develop a global construction commons.

4. THE PROJECT SO FAR
VERSION MAP 01/2013 WikiHouse/NZ_v3.0
Christchurch, NZ
SpaceCraft
@MartinLuff
@ecoarkNZ
Walkers’ Shelter
Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire
Bauman Lyons Architects
WikiHouse/HAITI
WikiHouse_v2.0 WikiHouse/RIO
Haiti (unfunded)
Zero-bolts S-Joint www.wikihouserio.cc
Randy Bostrum / HCM
Steve Fisher @jimmygreer
@AlastairParvin
@dinho
@Nick_diaconou
@AlastairParvin
@Nick_diaconou
...
Winner of TED Prize
City2.0
WikiHouse_v1.0 WikiHouse_v1.1 WikiHouse_v1.1 WikiHouse_v1.2 WikiHouse_v2.0 WikiHouse_v2.0
UK test prototype Gwangju Design Biennale HUB Westminster Chelmsford Hacked Milan Ascot zero bolts
First zero-bolts prototype
@nick_diaconou @_Beatrice @lyntonpepper @AlastairParvin @AlastairParvin
@AlastairParvin @AlastairParvin @AlastairParvin @Joostbeunderman @_Beatrice @lyntonpepper
Momentum engineering @joostbeunderman @nick_diaconou @JoniSteiner Steve Fisher @AlastairParvin
@indy_johar Steve Fisher 00:/ Austen Cook @Nick_diaconou
@jonisteiner Austen Cook
WikiHouse Platform & Plugin_v1.1
WikiHouse Parametric Experiments
@tav @AlastairParvin San Diego, CA
Espians
@thruflo @YeppiNZel
@nick_diaconou @Yogeshtaylor @make4D
Architecture 00 (’zero zero’) OpenDesk _v1.1 Open Desk_v1.2 OpenDesk _v1.3 OpenDesk _v1.3.1 OpenDesk _v1.2.1 OpenDesk _v1.3.2 Junior MiniMint v1.3
London HUB Westminster Library Conference table for Lustre BEcause AOP Boardroom, London ‘Junior Mint’ Ages 6-9 ‘Junior MiniMint’ Ages 3-6
www.architecture00.net OpenDesk v1.0 Mint Digital, London
Mint Digital, London @jonisteiner @jonisteiner @jonisteiner @jonisteiner @jonisteiner @jonisteiner
Indy Johar @nick_diaconou @jonisteiner
David Saxby @jonisteiner @lyntonpepper
Alice Fung @nick_diaconou
Nick Ierodiaconou
Lynton Pepper
Joni Steiner
Sarah Hollingworth
Joost Beundermann
Alastair Parvin
Tim Ahrensbach
Olivia Tusinski Hub Petal Table
Jean Murphy HUB Islington
Debbie So Katy Marks
Ottilie Ventiroso
Petal Table Prototype CNC Petal Table Stem Table Leaf Table
TechHUB HUB Westminster HUB Westminster HUB Westminster
@nick_diaconou @jonisteiner @david__steiner @jonisteiner
@00alice @david__steiner @jonisteiner
@lyntonpepper
2011 2012

5. 5/NEW MATERIALS 6/CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM
4/EFFICIENCY DEV Explore alternative materials, fabrication
Developing open, easy, cheap & sustainable solutions
techniques looking for an open, cheap, easy
to other parts of system such as windows, off-grid
horizontal supply chain. eg Recycled
Currently WikiHouse uses about 6 plywod sanitation, off-grid energy, skin, foundations,
plastics, bioplastics, mud?
4’x8’ sheets per m² internal area of house. ventilation / cooling, furniture.
We believe it could be much more efficient.
7/WIKI
3/STRUCTURE DEV An open, easy to use, low-management
platform for the community to share files,
Improve and test WikiHouse joints, instructions, research, knowledge and
spans etc. challenges.
8/PARAMETRIC
Simple APIs that allows any user
to input site info and design
house which can be ‘printed’,
generating designs through
parametric scripts responding to
site constraints / user input.
Easier even than Sketchup.
2/COMMUNITY
FACTORY
Start with a CNC machine (eg
Blackfoot) and start
GOALS
experimenting with WikiHouse,
improving it, making prototypes,
making structures. Make it as
open as possible.
1/BUILD 9/PLUGIN DEV
Commission / design / make a One of the most urgent / promising areas for
fully inhabited WikiHouse, clad, development: Improve the Ruby plugin for Sketchup
enclosed, finished and serviced including:
however you can, then share the
files and instructions online via - More efficient nesting of parts onto sheet.
wikihouse.cc - Better part labelleling.
– Automated or semi-automated edge offsets (eg
1mm) of parts and holes.
– Generate clean dxfs (or IGES or STEP?) or
– Generate direct to G-code for CNC.
Download the plugin code here from GitHub.

6. AN OPEN CHALLENGE
We are seeking to raise $1 million
to fund a global, open challenge WikiHouse NZ
Post-earthquake
around WikiHouse, to develop the housing,
system further and build an open Christchurch, New
platform in the commons. This Zealand
Funding needed
funding may come in small or $100k
large parts, and it will drive the
delivery of: WikiHouse Rio
‘Community Factory’
Complexo do Alemão
10 Projects TED Cities 2.0 Prize
Funding needed
Ten partnered projects designing +Crowdfunding
and building inhabited, developed $100k
structures adapted to several
different climates and economic WikiHouse _
Your project.
contexts around the world. With
$100k
designs, instructions and
knowledge shared for all. WikiHouse _
Your project.
$100k
1 Software tool WIKIHOUSE
An easy to use, free parametric- PLATFORM WikiHouse _
design tool which will allow even Design Library Your project.
Software $100k
those with minimal design, Community wiki
software and construction skills to $1m WikiHouse _
design, adapt and generate unique Your project.
‘printable’ houses. $100k
WikiHouse _
1 Community Platform Your project.
A supported community ‘Wiki’, $100k
hosting not just model sharing and
fabrication software but an open WikiHouse _
Your project.
peer-to-peer library of $100k
construction methods, materials,
designs and instructions. WikiHouse _
Your project.
$100k
1 Global ‘Hackathon’
A local and globally networked WikiHouse _
one-off 48hr event to develop Your project.
$100k
Hardware, Software and platform
tools.

7. 10 PRINCIPLES
1. ‘BE LAZY LIKE A FOX’. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Copy,
adapt, give credit, share. (Thanks Linus Torvalds & Eric S
Raymond)
2. OPEN MATERIALS
Cheap, abundant, low carbon materials.
3. DESIGN TO LOWER THE THRESHOLD. Cost / time / skill.
That’s when design is disruptive.
4. DESIGN LOCAL, SHARE GLOBAL
You don’t need to solve everyone’s problems. Design for
your needs, then share.
5. RESOURCES MATTER
WikiHouses should be as efficient as possible in their use
of energy, water and resources.
6. INCLUSIVE + SAFE
Maximise the safety, security and health (both mental and
physical) of the users at all stages of the structure’s life
7. OPEN STANDARDS Always share and make shareable.
8. DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY The easier to dismantle
structures or replace individual parts, the better.
9. DESIGN FOR MISTAKES Make it hard to get wrong.
10. “IT IS EASIER TO SHIP RECIPES THAN CAKES AND
BISCUITS”
- John Maynard Keynes

8. WikiHouse itself is a non-profit project, which has been initiated and
developed by a broad cross-disciplinary core team including 00,
Momentum Engineering, Beatrice Galilee, Espians and many others.
ABOUT US
00 (‘zero zero’) is a collaborative office of architects, designers,
sociologists and technologists. We work with all kinds of people, from
individuals to governments, to solve problems and anticipate change.
Throughout, our aim is to reach beyond the design of objects themselves
to the social, economic and environmental systems behind them.
www.architecture00.net
SOME LINKS
Wikihouse in DOMUS
Interview with Alastair Parvin in Policy Innovations
TED Prize Cities 2.0
WikiHouse in WIRED
SOME PROJECTS WE LOVE
Open Source Ecology
RepRap 3D Printer
Blackfoot CNC
Open Architecture Network
Thingiverse
...

9. WikiHouse Hardware License
WikiHouse hardware (design files and any associated instructions) are
published and shared under Creative Commons BY - SA. You are free to edit,
copy, distribute and remix, providing you attribute full authorship and re-
share your version under the same conditions. More >
WikiHouse Software License
WikiHouse software is published in the Public Domain under the Ampify
Unlicense. This means there are no restrictions limiting its use. More >
WikiHouse Name & Logo
Only the WikiHouse name and logo is protected, which just
allows us to say what is and isn’t part of the WikiHouse
project. All are invited to share and attribute the logo, provided
you do not try to adopt if for your own unrelated project.
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