CORE HOUSING

Today we live in a unique, although temporary, time that allows us to extract natural resources from the past and borrow capital from future generations.   To help offset global warming, homelessness, and resource shortages we need to provide an off the shelf solution to let people live lighter, work and consume less to protect our planet. A hybrid mass-produced CORE with biometric perimeter spaces is part of the solution. 

Houses, water, and energy have become commodities with
artificial upward cost pressures from aging infrastructures,
easy money and outdated construction methods. Affordable
sustainable housing for a growing population will require a
centralized construction platform on a massive scale,
produced and sold similar to the computer and automotive
industries. To avoid the cost of shipping large prefabricated
open spaces, the hybrid 'Core' system will focus on the most
technical spaces, including state of the art installed
technology for decentralized energy production, storage and
filtered water collection.
The Core concept designs will be for multiple building types,
sizes, uses and locations to maximize cost savings and help
reduce the impact of future energy, water, and income
shortages.

The Core concept designs will be for multiple building types,
sizes, uses and locations to maximize cost savings and help
reduce the impact of future energy, water, and income
shortages.

The Core concept designs will be for multiple building types,
sizes, uses and locations to maximize cost savings and help
reduce the impact of future energy, water, and income
shortages.

Organize the right group of people.

Mass produced CORE housing system.
At the center of the hybrid factory/site built home is a prefab
container 'core' that will include a kitchen and bathroom with
plumbing, electrical, mechanical and state of the art
renewable energy and water systems. The regional and site
specific perimeter walls and roof could be built of wood 2 x
framing, sip panels, straw bales, auto-claved concrete, adobe
bricks, earth coil domes, tent fabric or maybe even a future
'foamcrete' poured into a mold or layered with a large 3-d
printer.
The core could be off grid to allow for livable shelter were
there is no infrastructure. Larger buildings will have 'captured'
spaces with pre-fabricated wall and roof components.

Direct financing in addition to siting a do it yourself house
design on an inexpensive more remote lot and the cost
savings of a world wide
mass production process

Self contained homes will reduce the need for new
infrastructure.
The self contained home option has attached hinged walls,
allowing a delivered 20' container to fold out into
a 560 square foot home. The assisted living building will have
8 or 16 (2 story) cores surrounding a
'captured' common area. The stacked flats will have 3 high
welded structural cores surrounded by site
built open spaces. The apartment core will be sited with space
to allow for do-it your self construction
of the attached rooms. Farm worker and homeless units will
be movable. Core shelter will help reverse
our current unsustainable practice of using energy from the
past and borrowing money from the future

The design and site planning will adapt to multiple users
and worldwide locations.
There will be city infill town homes, assisted living buildings,
tract and custom homes, homeless units, farm worker,
apartments and low rise stacked flats. The Core shelter homes
will have the lowest combined
embedded, construction, and occupancy carbon footprint
possible. The floor plans will be minimal, 560
square feet for a family of 4, etc. The designs will include
passive solar, night flush ventilation and
thermal mass. There will be built in filtered water collection
and storage, allowing for water rationing
as needed. Some areas areas in the world are now allowed
only a bathtub full of potable water, once a
week. Grey water, compost toilets, hand cranked clothes
washer can be included. An automated slide
out garden cover/ green house with drip irrigation.

I think one answer would be a MASS produced core that could be combined with a menu of regionally designed plans that could use site built construction such as 3d printing or CLT, in addition to local methods. The core system would address the 3 issues of a structure-embodied energy, total cost of construction, and energy use during occupancy. Such a system could help reduce the current migration into cities and overloaded infrastructures.