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Designs. An Emergency Shelter That's Open Source and Locks Together Like Legos. Three years after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in tents.

An Emergency Shelter That's Open Source and Locks Together Like Legos

And while tents do have their merits—they’re cheap and fast to construct—they’re not really meant to be more than just temporary relief. But what is the alternative? Constructing a custom-built structure is too time consuming and expensive. But what if you could create a structure that combines the efficiency of a tent with the comfort and stability of a four-walled structure? That’s what Dutch architect Pieter Stoutjesdijk of ECOnnect was thinking when he created the concept for an emergency housing shelter for Haiti. Stoutjesdijk’s shelter is a digitally fabricated structure whose interlocking pieces can be assembled into an actual home in less than five hours. It’s an open source design that can be distributed as a digital file. 20 Open Source Furniture Designs. Top image: Pod, open source stool, by Samuel Javelle.

20 Open Source Furniture Designs

Article cross-posted from MakingSociety. Open source furniture design is popping up these days. Open Design means mainly two things: documentation is shared freely so that users can make their own models, furnitures are made with digital fabrication and can be reproduce in a makerspace or FabLab. In a few words, as smartly said by the Open Design Contest initiative: … designing and sharing products that can be made with digital fabrication. Take a look at more than 20 inspiring open source furnitures that you can make your own. 1. Pod, open source stool, before and after assembling Pod has been designed by French open designer Samuel Javelle. 2. Never Ending Bench. Bits and Parts. Domerama. Slowd - la prima fabbrica diffusa del design.

The 3-B Printing Project. Filson and Rohrbacher. My Atoms Are Your Atoms. OpenDesk - Open Source Furniture — Made Locally. 20+ Open Source Furniture Designs. Bearina IUD Concept. Collaborative Collection Lookmaps » Openwear. Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects.

An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch. The move towards DIY digital fabrication--from MakerBot to Fab@Home--is an undoubtedly great development for consumers.

An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch

But one thing it’s missing is a standard system for modeling and exchanging components. If 10 people upload a design for a replacement bolt for a chair, odds are you’ll get 10 slightly different designs. While the world has the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) devoted to regulating specifications, tolerances, and standards of consumer goods, the digital fabrication community is fractured when it comes to a universal standard. Enter OpenStructures, a Belgian project that aims to establish a standard grid for developing and sharing models.

OpenStructures is “a modular construction model, where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid,” the OS team explains. [via Designboom] Why design cannot remain exclusive. SketchChair by Diatom Studio. Make Eyewear - Infinitely Customizable Eyewear.

WikiHouse: An open source home design and build kit. A London based design and strategy firm wants to make designing and building your own home more possible and affordable. 00:/, the designers, have cre...

WikiHouse: An open source home design and build kit

A London based design and strategy firm wants to make designing and building your own home more possible and affordable. 00:/, the designers, have created an open source house design and construction kit named WikiHouse. WikiHouse will be open to anyone and everyone via a Creative Commons license. The entire project from design and construction of a prototype house to concept and building of the website was a collaboration with Momentum Engineering and Espians. 00:/ call their tools for open source design Open Hardware, something they have developed and refined in their open source furniture for various London offices.

The Wikihouse website outlines the simple steps to designing, downloading and constructing your very own house. The first non-prototype WikiHouse is currently part of the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 in South Korea. Free Download: Mozilla Japan’s Open Source Furniture Plans. Open Design City - lab/shop/creative-ish thing at betahaus Berlin.