Bola Sociology Design

Design+Social Responsability: Open Source House

December 1st, 2009

Created by Vincent van der Meulen and coordinated by a team of young people that come from different backgrounds, Open Source House is a housing project for developing countries. Based in the open source concept, the project proposes sustainable houses, that will adapt to the environment, that can be expanded and also low costs. To achieve that, the group proposes 8 principles that predict, amongst other things, the life cycle of the material and disponibility of projects on the site, that will be the source of inspiration for future builds. The OS House will start receiving projects in january 15th of 2010. The winning design will be build in Gana, in Africa.