Utilihab Wiki

Welcome to Utilihab

This wiki site is an evolving component and design catalog for Utilihab; a sophisticated Open Source modular building system for homes and utility structures that affords for housing the same ease of assembly as a PC, allowing structures of most any size to be built by one to a few people using simple hand tools.

Utilihab is based on extruded aluminum T-slot profiles common to the industrial automation industry and frequently used in robotics and laboratory equipment. With recently introduced large profile scales, it has become possible to use T-slot in much larger structures such as homes and buildings. It even has potential use in the design of space habitats or automated facilities such as greenhouse farms.

A number of companies have begun exploring the housing application of T-slot, though using proprietary schemes and often abandoning the generic T-slot products for proprietary framing in a bid to monopolize the technology. Utilihab intends to cultivate an Open Source building system accessible to a larger and global community of developers so that its potential to revolutionize homebuilding -and financing- can be fully realized. With Global Warming estimated to force billions to move over the next couple of decades and the home finance systems of the developed countries catastrophically failing, we can no longer affectively house ourselves as we have in the past. Utilihab seeks to ultimately realize the dream of designer/artist Constant Nieuwenhuys; the realization of a new intelligent and dynamic human habitat freely and spontaneously self-adapting to our needs, desires and environment.

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