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The point of product release marks an exciting time. Our main learning is that traction just doesn't happen - we have to provide replicable enterprise models. And because diverse, integrated skill-sets are required in our work - we need to train people. As builders, designers, entrepreneurs. All of this comes from proving out the eneterprise model of the Seed Eco-Home - which we're doing this year. We plan on the 4 builds in October and November. | The point of product release marks an exciting time. Our main learning is that traction just doesn't happen - we have to provide replicable enterprise models. And because diverse, integrated skill-sets are required in our work - we need to train people. As builders, designers, entrepreneurs. All of this comes from proving out the eneterprise model of the Seed Eco-Home - which we're doing this year. We plan on the 4 builds in October and November. | ||
The best part is that the model, as promised, revolves around our swarm builds with 24 people in 5 days. But not just the structure - but everything, starting from a finished foundation. That is a challenge, on many fronts. For which reason the average house takes 8 months. We've spent an infinite amount of time building and refining Seed Eco-Home 2 - to make the modular swarm build possible. | The best part is that the model, as promised, revolves around our swarm builds with 24 people in 5 days. But not just the structure - but everything, starting from a finished foundation. That is a challenge, on many fronts. For which reason the average house takes 8 months. We've spent an infinite amount of time building and refining Seed Eco-Home 2 - to make the modular swarm build possible. The materials cost for the house is $60k now - actually about 2x than 6 years ago - which emphasized why materials production in house will be part of the product evolution. | ||
To get to the October build, it's all hands on deck. The CAD is thorough - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2_3D_CAD#Master_Files - but still has hundreds of hours left for completion of the final version tgat gets published in our forthcoming Building Book. The book will be about 1500 pages so that anyone can build | To get to the October build, it's all hands on deck now. The CAD is thorough - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2_3D_CAD#Master_Files - but still has hundreds of hours left for completion of the final version tgat gets published in our forthcoming Building Book. The book will be about 1500 pages so that anyone can build and enterprise with the Seed Eco-Home. Including any other variations of the house - as the Seed Eco-Home provides a construction set for building a home of any size and shape. And any material - such as our Compressed Earth Blocks. We are close to having all the modular design details and patterns worked out and tested fully, so that this work is a truly generative set. | ||
This week we're restarting our weekly design meeting, which will go on every Friday at 4 PM CST USA time. Please respond to me at marcin at opensourceecology dot org for the Zoom link if you'd like to participate on Friday. The basic plan is - producing build instructions, diagrams, build cheatsheets, refining CAD - everything that goes into the Building Book. And we're looking for the build team. We'll run the builds with 6 crew leaders, each working with a team of 3 more builders and students. We will try our hybrid build model, which includes both builders and learners. If you'd like to review the initial promise of the Seed Eco-Home | This week we're restarting our weekly design meeting, which will go on every Friday at 4 PM CST USA time. Please respond to me at marcin at opensourceecology dot org for the Zoom link if you'd like to participate on Friday the 24th. The basic plan is - producing build instructions, diagrams, build cheatsheets, refining CAD - everything that goes into the Building Book. And we're looking for the build team. We'll run the builds with 6 crew leaders, each working with a team of 3 more builders and students. We will try our hybrid build model, which includes both builders and learners. If you'd like to review the initial promise of the Seed Eco-Home - take a look at our Open Building Institute promo video from 6 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7lZZP21c8. It will be all of that and more. | ||
Marcin | |||
Revision as of 00:25, 21 June 2022
Hello Friends,
Welcome back to our monthly email, sent out at least once per year. We're starting to make noise again about the Seed Eco-Home.
This time - this is the final release and starting of a 24 person apprenticeship program, planned for March 2023. We plan to build 4 Seed Eco-Homes this year for outside customers - and 50 more next year. That would mark the point of traction - where our work is finally getting out in the public.
Last year we started a pilot Apprenticeship program as part of the Summer of Extreme Design Build. We worked on Seed Eco-Home 2, Seed Eco-Home 3, next iteration of tractor, CNC torch table, built more 3D printers, and much more. See the thousand photos here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/fCachrde4WxhGbkD9 - and see a thousand more on the Seed Eco-Home 2 - our product release. The house now has black vinyl siding, not the original stained plywood. Thus it will be black like in the rendering - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2
The point of product release marks an exciting time. Our main learning is that traction just doesn't happen - we have to provide replicable enterprise models. And because diverse, integrated skill-sets are required in our work - we need to train people. As builders, designers, entrepreneurs. All of this comes from proving out the eneterprise model of the Seed Eco-Home - which we're doing this year. We plan on the 4 builds in October and November.
The best part is that the model, as promised, revolves around our swarm builds with 24 people in 5 days. But not just the structure - but everything, starting from a finished foundation. That is a challenge, on many fronts. For which reason the average house takes 8 months. We've spent an infinite amount of time building and refining Seed Eco-Home 2 - to make the modular swarm build possible. The materials cost for the house is $60k now - actually about 2x than 6 years ago - which emphasized why materials production in house will be part of the product evolution.
To get to the October build, it's all hands on deck now. The CAD is thorough - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2_3D_CAD#Master_Files - but still has hundreds of hours left for completion of the final version tgat gets published in our forthcoming Building Book. The book will be about 1500 pages so that anyone can build and enterprise with the Seed Eco-Home. Including any other variations of the house - as the Seed Eco-Home provides a construction set for building a home of any size and shape. And any material - such as our Compressed Earth Blocks. We are close to having all the modular design details and patterns worked out and tested fully, so that this work is a truly generative set.
This week we're restarting our weekly design meeting, which will go on every Friday at 4 PM CST USA time. Please respond to me at marcin at opensourceecology dot org for the Zoom link if you'd like to participate on Friday the 24th. The basic plan is - producing build instructions, diagrams, build cheatsheets, refining CAD - everything that goes into the Building Book. And we're looking for the build team. We'll run the builds with 6 crew leaders, each working with a team of 3 more builders and students. We will try our hybrid build model, which includes both builders and learners. If you'd like to review the initial promise of the Seed Eco-Home - take a look at our Open Building Institute promo video from 6 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7lZZP21c8. It will be all of that and more.
Marcin