WIGO Project. A concept of a modular open source construction system.

[bitacovir]

WIGO is a concept of a modular open source construction system.
WIGO (WikiHouse + Lego) is a system of modular parts fabricated in Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). The idea is to have different parts that are possible to be assembled and changed later if it is needed. This way the renovation of a house can be done without waste generation. A window panel is a module, a door panel is another module. If I want to change the internal configuration of the house I should be able to exchange doors and windows positions in the façade. No demolition is required. All the modules are reused. Like LEGO parts.
This is only an idea. A lot of development is needed. The repository has the FreeCAD files of basic parts for the main frame (picture). You can fork it, improve it and add more parts if you want.
The idea is inspired on WikiHouse and the LEGO systems.

https://github.com/bitacovir/WIGO

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[thschrader]

Interesting Project!
Downloaded the FC-files from gitthub.
Lets see what I can do...
Some inspiration:
http://www.si-modular.net/construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De6REyILofQ

[ThanklessLiving]

While an okay idea on paper, I am not very confident in such a building technique. Taking it apart once might work, but the second time I think a lot of those panels would end up damaged beyond usability... Also it would likely be much expensive than a traditional timber frame house because of all the CNC machining time required to make the panels.

That si modular one is looking a bit better, but the question comes to mind - what does it do better than already existing prefab construction techniques? Innovating just to do things differently and/or in a more expensive and/or in a way that is more difficult to build and maintain way is a dead end, there needs to be a serious benefit over existing technologies.

Not putting any of this down, it's interesting to learn about