Some time back I mentioned that a group of students had worked out a rather neet way to provide the structure for small developments, via the cutting of ply panels, to form whats now known as the Wiki House.
Well it’s not gone away and they have done a little nore work on the design and added some more plans. Its all in Sketchup, so easy to view, I actually imported them into Vectorworks, and viewd then there as well.
I like this type of research, the structure is very interesting and uses so little in terms of manufacturing, any one can print of these sheets, the different sections needed are laid out for a large sheet of ply, so it could not be easier, fitting then together might need a little training, but a couple of youtube videos would be good for this. Existing videos show the basics and well worth watching,.
Simply each frame is made up of two ply layers, the panels of one layer offset from the other so the joints are always covered by the other, hence the ability to make the spans they can. Simple joints and ply pins joint and pull the frames together, in a process thats well understood of you ever look at old timber frame structures.
The videos below are just two of many on YouTube, that show the simple construction of the Wiki House.
The CPD here is a load of different things, from simple structure, to cutting of ply, to third world housing, to 3D drawing in Sketchup and exporting to Vectorworks.
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