Seed Home v2 Conceptual Design

General

• Based on Seed Eco-Home, Open Building Institute modules
• Grow home - expands as needed
• Helical pier foundation preferred
• Modular - prebuilt modules allow for weekend build, and then full build in 1 week with 2 people
• Land is not included
• Design it so it is resilient to disasters ?

Wall Interface

Hi Elijah,

We are taking the Seed Eco-Home to product release next year. We are doing a major campaign with a goal of getting 2000 built over 2 years. The promise is a 1000 sf home for $50k that you can build with a friend in one week. That's a significant offer, and we think we can do it. The trick is: people build and stash modules, then have a week-long build with, at minimum, one other person.

There is one outstanding issue that we are negotiating: the joint between panels. It is critical - as it's what allows all the walls to be done, from prepared panels - in about 4 hours for a 1000 sf house. We used tongue-and groove exterior panels in our last build, and build the walls in less than a day, including building panels. You can see more pictures of the stellar product after 4 years at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zKOMjNU4qP_xndJ1r5LLmJLNujjfy8LPEyflKgELZWM/edit#slide=id.g5c3be0ce2d_1_28

That is 1400 sf. We're planning on 1000 sf and flat roof for the product release.

For the product release, we'll use plain exterior treated plywood panels to simplify the joint. Please take a look at the doc and comment on - whether the 2 routes proposed can be negotiated through codes and existing inspection schedules. Which one would you suggest? Do you have another solution? Would love your insight, and also your help in the product release. We're planning a large scale collaborative design where we publish an open enterprise model. We plan on training 100 entrepreneurs to do the builds, and a number of one week on-site training for owner-builders where we build an entire house in each event. So essentially, really taking it to prime time - it's all working and we want to solve housing as promised.

Thanks, Marcin