NEW YORK: The two hundred and tenth entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.
A communal house-building network that started in the dark days after the Christchurch earthquake will be a reality this year.
WikiHouse is an open hardware project, where experts design houses, or parts of them, and share their creations online for any house builder who wants to use them.
WikiHouseNZ co-founders and directors Danny Squires and Martin Luff will build a 25-30 square metre prototype house by the end of the year.
The house will be fully enclosed, watertight, insulated, plumbed and wired for electricity and the internet. It would cost no more than a conventional house of the same size, Luff said.
