Openstructures

The OpenStructures (OS) project initiates a construction system where everyone designs for everyone.

It is an ongoing experiment that wants to find out what happens if people design objects according to a shared modular grid, a common open standard that stimulates the exchange of parts, components, experiences and ideas and aspires to build things together. The ultimate goal is to initiate a universal, collaborative puzzle that allows the broadest range of people – from craftsmen to multinationals – to design, build and exchange the broadest range of modular components, resulting in a more flexible and scalable built environment.

An open modular system of this kind has the potential to:

- generate flexible and dynamic puzzle structures rather than uniform modular entities

- introduce variety within modularity

- stimulate re-use cycles of various parts and components

- enable collaborative (and thus exponential) innovation within hardware construction

http://www.openstructures.net/pages/1

Openstructures has several home furniture and fittings scructures with full downloadable plans.

Scructures:http://www.openstructures.net/pages/14/structures

(allas most of them are under full copyright)

Also in openstructures components there are many usefull household designs under a Creative Commons licence

http://www.openstructures.net/pages/11/components