Can we design hardware like how we design software?

The OpenStructures project is an attempt to define a three dimensional open source code for our built environment.

It wants to initiate a kind of collective LEGO where everybody, from the biggest manufacturer to the most remote craftsman, can create their own individual blocs to then trade them with others through an online component database.

This setting will result in an open modular system, a universal 3D puzzle of compatible parts that will generate an endless variety of dynamic patchwork structures and a built environment that is truly scalable, ?exible and diverse.

If we want to communicate we need to use the same vocabulary,

if we want to exchange digital files, we need to work from the same formats.

If we want to co-create our environment, we need to build with the same bricks.