This modular prefab home is powered by the sun

The beauty of an open source house is in its simplicity. Designed as a kit of parts that can be downloaded, milled, then assembled, open source homes are, by their very nature, boiled down to their most elemental pieces.

This tiny cubes of a house from Dutch studio RoosRos Architecten is an update to the WikiHouse model of open source architecture. RoosRos designed the Petit Place as a kit of wooden elements that can assemble into a massive variety of sizes ranging from 270 square feet to 10,000 square feet depending on the number of parts in the plan.

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RoosRos Architecten

The buildings are constructed by assembling pentagon-shaped slices of building that when connected form a long, shotgun-style house. The facade of is built from a grid of wooden squares that have been insulated in a gore-tex foil that wicks water and protects from wind. The exterior also features a grid of solar panels, which generates 9,000 kWh per year, roughly three times the amount of energy needed to power the home.

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The Petit Place is designed to be built just about anywhere. All you have to do is download the plans, find a place to fabricate it, and then voila—you’ve got yourself a simple, beautiful, and most importantly, totally efficient home.

Check out the finished result in this video.

Via: Designboom