XH SYSTEM HOUSE

house as a system

 
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Open source architecture has the potential to reach users that would never even consider finding an architect and starting a design–build process that can deeply affect a sizeable amount of territory and population. It also offers potential for the process to go from generic to highly specific, and provide an opportunity for user customisation to become collaborative design. Unknown users, their needs and behaviour, together with an unknown context (physical, climatic, economic, technological, material) generate the need for customisation. 

The small simple proto-house defines the basic unit of a system. It is a single storey volume with a central core and a set of XL windows that outline its particular appearance. It can work as a small home or a holiday-house, or just as one of several units within a larger aggregation. The Xh System house is open-source since 28th October 2016, available to anyone and everyone to build and customise.

 
 

location: anywhere on earth
project date: 2013-2014
open source since 28.10.2016
area: 59 m2, 105m2, 165m2, 352m2, …
type: residential, housing, public,…

project team: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič, Naia Sinde, Alessandro Fonte
visualizations: Alessandro Fonte, Martin Kruh