OPEN SOURCE DESIGN The Efficient Architect(s)
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CONTENTS
Introduction
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ELEMENTAL
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Carlo Ratti Associates
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WikiHouse
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OpenDesk Aker
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PaperHouses Brick Source
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Sketch Chair
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Leka Restaurant
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INTRODUCTION what ?
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Included in this document is a preliminary gathering of research into open source architecture. Many more opportunities exist to collaborate and many more potentially could with the rise of The Efficient Architect(s).
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ELEMENTAL Incremental Housing
ELEMENTAL, Quinta Monroy incremental housing, 2004.
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ELEMENTAL, Quinta Monroy incremental housing participatory growth, 2006.
Alejandro Aravena, annouced at the 2016 Prizker Prize award ceremony that his firm ELEMENTAL would be releasing 4 of thies social housing designs on their website. Completely open to the public to download, adapt, and use from the following link: http://www.elementalchile.cl/en/projects/abc-ofincremental-housing/
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CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATES Swish
Carlo Ratti Associates, Swish, 2016.
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Carlo Ratti and his firm Carlo Ratti Associates, released the design for their award winning stool, Swish. The file is availible for download, redesign, and CNC production from the follwoing link: http://www.carloratti.com/project/swish/
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ALISTAIR PARVIN WikiHouse
Margaux Carron, Two Story WikiHouse, 2014.
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WikiHouse is a project by Alistair Parvin towards a blueprint house which requires only a CNC machine to be produced and much like ikea furniture, can be put together by anyone. Available here: https://wikihouse.cc/library
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OPENDESK Furniture Designs
Scarlett San Martin, Fin Locker Planter, 2017.
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Opendesk is a group of UK-based designers that share their furniture designs under a Creative Commons license. Their catalog includes different types of office furniture, including desks, cupboards, and chairs. Fees apply to designs. Available here: https://www.opendesk.cc/designs
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AKER
Urban Garden Kits
AKER, Product Range, 2017.
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“Our unique line of products integrate together to help you grow veggies, leafy greens, and herbs as well as create havens for wildlife like honeybees and butterflies. We manufacture in the USA and use only high-quality, ethically sourced, and foodsafe materials and finishes. We also make all of our designs open source, so you can make your very own version or even remix the files and make something new!� - AKER Available here: https://akerkits.com/collections/sourcefiles
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PAPERHOUSES Open Source Houses
Paperhouses, The Folk House, 2017.
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“Paperhouses is the first open source platform that brings world-class architecture for free to the general public.” “Paperhouses was created so that users around the world could experience design on their own terms. With an exclusive portfolio of award-winning architect projects, everyone can find design inspiration, download, explore, and build upon ideas in an open-source environment. Paperhouses is your home!” “Our community includes Panorama, Rintala Eggertsson architects, Scale Architecture, Sporaarchitects, Tatiana Bilbao S.C., and Xten Architecture among others. Each has designed an incredible project which is out here for you to explore. There is an infinite realm of possibilities for unique quality designs. They have just set the first stone, now it is your turn!” - Paperhouses Available here: http://paperhouses.co/houses/
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BRICKSOURCE Parametric brick patterns
sstudiommoonn, Parametric brick facade, 2016.
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“bricksource is a website where the GH script used to create parametric brickwork based on a modeled surface in rhino or an excel file is published for free dl along with the rhino file containing the models and stencils plus the excel files of the X pattern as an example —+DIYs—. If one knows Rhino they can simply alter every parameter including the brick size, the bonds, the rotation domains, etc. and create parametric walls just by modeling a simple surface in rhino.” - Bricksource Available here: http://bricksource.tumblr.com/
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SKETCHCHAIR CNC Furniture
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Sketch Chair, Library Designs, 2017.
“SketchChair is a free, open-source software tool that allows anyone to easily design and build their own digitally fabricated furniture.� - Sketch Chair Available here: http://www.sketchchair.cc/
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LEKA RESTAURANT Furniture, Clothes and Recipes
Fab Lab Barcelona, Leka Restaurant Interior, 2017.
“Leka is a restaurant locally manufactured in Poble Nou neighborhood, it was developed and manufactured in Fab Lab Barcelona with the support of a net of local dealers and workshops. The restaurant is conceived as an open source platform, where all the knowledge is shared to everyone and gives it a unique character. Thus, all the designs, the recepies and the nutrition advice can be download from the restaurant web site.� - Anastasia Pistofidou y Miguel Guerrero Fab Lab BCN Available here: http://www.restauranteleka.com
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