URBox: High tech energy and informal housing

This paper reports on the URBox concept encompassing the high tech end of solar energy and informal low cost and affordable housing. It aims to contribute to solving the global energy crisis by building solar energy settlements in deserts where land is affordable and sunshine in abundance. First the award winning Solar City 2050 is described and...

Learning from complexity

Architectural design has become disconnected from a slow changing tradition on the one hand and from a traditional way of building on the other hand. All interventions, whether the results of necessity, planning or design have a decision making process in common, a spiral of See Want Can Do. It needs a structure of decision-making and...

Timeless flexible building: Matching demand and supply in flexible housing

The concepts of Open Building and Lean Construction suggest strategies for designing, building and operating the built environment. These concepts create value and take into account all present and future stakeholders who are in control during construction and use. It gives guidelines on how to manage a construction process to create a built...