Given our penchant for Flickr these days, it will come as no surprise that we are intrigued by the Open Source House.
It is the senior thesis of Rahm Rechtschaffen, a student in
architecture at Catholic University in Washington DC. The project so
far is a little rudimentary, but the premise is interesting:
Open Source House is an experimental architectural design
project. The goal is to design a house while making the design process
and design documents available to all potential users of the house for
comment and contribution. The hope is that the project will produce
design ideas that no individual contributor to the project could have
produced on their own.
What's interesting is to see the difference between elements that
architects design with ( form, scale, ornament/material) and the
elements the open-source community will see as primary.
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