This product combines the potential for a predicted New Industrial Revolution with one of the greatest challenges the world faces: to build a 1-million-inhabitant city per week for the next 20 years for $10,000 per family (Aravena, 2011). By opening up design to collaboration in a structured way we can arm ourselves with the greatest knowledge and creativity available, required to take up challenges of such scale. Where the first industrial revolution democratized consumption, the next one is expected to design and democratize production – through digital networks of shared knowledge and digital fabrication devices.
Ultimate Challenges for Eco-boards in the Future.
Performative Evolving Design
The developed process uses digital technologies to allow broadly defined building performance to become the main guiding design principle. The system of adjustment and advice does more than merely optimizing quantitative parameters.
The proven principle of CNC cut elements with integrated friction fit connections for full-scale building has been developed to reach new levels of adaptability, simplicity, material efficiency, aesthetics and structural performance.
A 21st Century Reinterpretation
Based on the mass-customization principles of the new industrial revolution, the concept perfectly fits its climatic, cultural, technological and historical context.
The growing middle class in developing countries all over the world wants better housing; more comfortable, more reliable and simply more spacious. However they are on a budget. We deliver digital fabrication to create affordable housing which is locally produced and fully biobased.