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Not completely what you are looking for, but still open source plans of house: Wikihouse https://www.wikihouse.cc/ https://www.wikihouse.cc/ Earthships are al

Not completely what you are looking for, but still open source plans of house: Wikihouse https://www.wikihouse.cc/ https://www.wikihouse.cc/ Earthships are also said to be open source, but the plans are (definitely) not free https://earthshipbiotecture.com/ https://earthshipbiotecture.com/ You can also check Open Source Home, by Studiolada (those are free, but the plans are in french) https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g4636/open-source-house-free-plans/ https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g46... Open Source Ecology is now listing a house in their list of builds https://www.opensourceecology.org/extreme-build-of-the-seed-eco-home/ https://www.opensourceecology.org/extreme-build-of-the-seed-... Open Building Institute is also promoting a configurable house https://www.openbuildinginstitute.org/ https://www.openbuildinginstitute.org/

j0r0b0 3y ago
> You can also check Open Source Home, by Studiolada (those are free, but the plans are in french) https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g46 https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g46... The plans aren't on the website anymore, but you can get it from https://web.archive.org/web/20170918182346/http://www.studiolada.fr/docs/telechargement/maison/dossier-synthese.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170918182346/http://www.studio...
iancmceachern 3y ago
Also check our Yurts: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/Build-yourself-a-portable-home---a-mongolian-yurt/%3famp_page=true https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/Build-you...
araes 3y ago
Wow. I scanned through this entire thread, and haven't seen an automatic house plan generator. I saw one comment with a request, and no responses. The architecture industry is enormous. Real estate is enormous. There's no automatic drawing, electrical, plumbing, insulation, ect... generators given specifications? I'm kind of amazed no one's trying to disrupt that. "Hi Stable Diffusion, please draw me blueprints for a 2000 sq. ft. house, with two stories, given this landscape. Thanks Stable Diffusion."
- quickthrowman 3y ago
  I work in construction management and I think you’re underestimating the complexity of generating a set of construction plans that meets code, passes inspection, and has coherent aesthetics. There isn’t just one set of building codes for every jurisdiction, different jurisdictions adopt various sets of code. Different geographic regions require various things that other areas don’t require. My state doesn’t have earthquakes or hurricanes, but we do have to have stronger roofs for handling snow load. Buildings in Florida need specific methods to handle hurricane force winds. Buildings in California need specific methods to handle earthquakes. And so on. How a building is designed is highly dependent on where it is located geographically. You’re also underestimating just how many different materials/fixtures/fittings get installed in a house. Plumbing fixtures and light fixtures, electrical wiring devices, floor/wall/ceiling finishes, doors and door hardware, siding (type, color, trim color), windows, woodwork, cabinet, cabinet hardware, countertops, bathroom vanities, appliances, rain gutters, garage door, driveway/sidewalk material and color, deck material and color, etc. I guess what I’m trying to say is that designing and building a building is far more complex than it seems.
  - Kailhus 3y ago
    It’s also fair to say the training data is probably not readily available either
    - bcx 3y ago
      Seems like most local planning offices would have a lot of training data, possible even publicly accessible via foia
  - ClumsyPilot 3y ago
    There also seems to be shortage of cad tools avable to inspect a building plan.,like as a consumer you would home you would get a plan of the house when you buy the house
    - quickthrowman 3y ago
Zezima 3y ago
Wikihouse is awesome! Thanks for that introduction
junon 3y ago
The earthship biotecture project is really neat, thanks for sharing.
- jacob171714 3y ago
  Its best to take and use the principles of it in another house. I personally don't want a bunch of tires breaking down and leaking chemicals and fumes into my house over a couple decades. Also much of the savings are from using your labor or volunteer/intern labor rather than paying someone else.
  - zo1 3y ago
    Its such a shame that a great sustainability project is ruined by some weird drive to "recycle" something stupid like tires. Just buy the effing bricks, have a construction company do it, have a factory safely recycle the tyres, and we can all save the environment. It strikes me as a very, for lack of a better term, misguided "hippy" commune kinda thing.
    - datavirtue 3y ago
      Yeah, and it will never get approved in any of the 10,000 zoning districts in the US. You should grab a random township zoning PDF and read the entire thing before even thinking about building something under 1600 sq ft, and that doesn't use materials from your local building supplier.
  - RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
    Having toured a couple, they also smell like farts.
  - spacecadet 3y ago
    People have built earthships without tires to great lengths and personal energy expenditure.
    - jacob171714 3y ago

j0r0b0 3y ago

> You can also check Open Source Home, by Studiolada (those are free, but the plans are in french) https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g46 https://www.countryliving.com/remodeling-renovation/news/g46... The plans aren't on the website anymore, but you can get it from https://web.archive.org/web/20170918182346/http://www.studiolada.fr/docs/telechargement/maison/dossier-synthese.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170918182346/http://www.studio...

iancmceachern 3y ago

Also check our Yurts: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/Build-yourself-a-portable-home---a-mongolian-yurt/%3famp_page=true https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/Build-you...

araes 3y ago

Wow. I scanned through this entire thread, and haven't seen an automatic house plan generator. I saw one comment with a request, and no responses. The architecture industry is enormous. Real estate is enormous. There's no automatic drawing, electrical, plumbing, insulation, ect... generators given specifications? I'm kind of amazed no one's trying to disrupt that. "Hi Stable Diffusion, please draw me blueprints for a 2000 sq. ft. house, with two stories, given this landscape. Thanks Stable Diffusion."

quickthrowman 3y ago
I work in construction management and I think you’re underestimating the complexity of generating a set of construction plans that meets code, passes inspection, and has coherent aesthetics. There isn’t just one set of building codes for every jurisdiction, different jurisdictions adopt various sets of code. Different geographic regions require various things that other areas don’t require. My state doesn’t have earthquakes or hurricanes, but we do have to have stronger roofs for handling snow load. Buildings in Florida need specific methods to handle hurricane force winds. Buildings in California need specific methods to handle earthquakes. And so on. How a building is designed is highly dependent on where it is located geographically. You’re also underestimating just how many different materials/fixtures/fittings get installed in a house. Plumbing fixtures and light fixtures, electrical wiring devices, floor/wall/ceiling finishes, doors and door hardware, siding (type, color, trim color), windows, woodwork, cabinet, cabinet hardware, countertops, bathroom vanities, appliances, rain gutters, garage door, driveway/sidewalk material and color, deck material and color, etc. I guess what I’m trying to say is that designing and building a building is far more complex than it seems.
- Kailhus 3y ago
  It’s also fair to say the training data is probably not readily available either
  - bcx 3y ago
    Seems like most local planning offices would have a lot of training data, possible even publicly accessible via foia
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  There also seems to be shortage of cad tools avable to inspect a building plan.,like as a consumer you would home you would get a plan of the house when you buy the house
  - quickthrowman 3y ago

Zezima 3y ago

Wikihouse is awesome! Thanks for that introduction

junon 3y ago

The earthship biotecture project is really neat, thanks for sharing.

jacob171714 3y ago
Its best to take and use the principles of it in another house. I personally don't want a bunch of tires breaking down and leaking chemicals and fumes into my house over a couple decades. Also much of the savings are from using your labor or volunteer/intern labor rather than paying someone else.
- zo1 3y ago
  Its such a shame that a great sustainability project is ruined by some weird drive to "recycle" something stupid like tires. Just buy the effing bricks, have a construction company do it, have a factory safely recycle the tyres, and we can all save the environment. It strikes me as a very, for lack of a better term, misguided "hippy" commune kinda thing.
  - datavirtue 3y ago
    Yeah, and it will never get approved in any of the 10,000 zoning districts in the US. You should grab a random township zoning PDF and read the entire thing before even thinking about building something under 1600 sq ft, and that doesn't use materials from your local building supplier.
- RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
  Having toured a couple, they also smell like farts.
- spacecadet 3y ago
  People have built earthships without tires to great lengths and personal energy expenditure.
  - jacob171714 3y ago