WikiHouse

s of two different WikiHouse designs from GitHub WikiHouse enables users to download Creative Commons-licensed files from its online library, customize them using SketchUp, and then use them to create jigsaw puzzle-like pieces out of plywood with a CNC router. Construction of WikiHouse structures requires no special parts because the cut pieces of wood snap together with wedge and peg connections inspired by classical Korean architecture. The frame of a WikiHouse can be assembled in less than a day by people with no formal training in construction. == History ==

, May 2013 After winning a cash prize at TEDGlobal in June 2012, the project invested the prize money into a partnership with the Brazilian youth mobilization project Dharma and the analysis agency BrazilIntel to build WikiHouses in the poorest favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By December 2013, while there were no inhabited WikiHouses, there were a few completed prototypes in addition to a usable walkers' shelter in Fridaythorpe, England. • WikiHouse 4.0 at the London Design Festival • FOUNDhouse microhouse • WikiHouse at MAKlab in Glasgow • Chop Shop in western Scotland • Space Craft Systems project in New Zealand • WikiSHED fork • WikiHouse at the 2015 Vienna Open == Impact ==

Media reaction to WikiHouse has focused largely on the experimental nature of the project, American science fiction author Bruce Sterling also gave a review of the WikiHouse design, describing it favorably as a dwelling "I could quite likely build and inhabit, personally". == See also ==