Intrastructures
Intrastructures is
a pragmatic utopian design
studio that generates
models, tools and products for social and environmental restoration.
Kevin Kelly, Wired magazine
Yes! we’re Open.
‘Yes! we’re Open.’ was an exhibition on how our networked society is reshaping the way we create, produce and consume.
The Open design manual for the DIY designer can be downloaded here.
OpenStructures at Z33
The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative Meccano to which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures.
Help us to create the world’s biggest Open modular construction system!
Follow the OpenStructures project here.
"In the future everybody
will be famous to 15 people."
— Nick Currie
The free market as the ultimate forum.
Cyclical kitchen.
Intrastructures is currently developing and testing a 'stomach' for the kitchen in which organic waste is transformed into biogas through a digestive process. The biogas is then used for cooking and the digestate as a fertilizer for plants.
This project in collaboration with biogas-e.
Burundi Building Case studies.
Intrastructures worked together with the architecture collective BrusselsCooperation to develop a masterplan for a small elementary school in Burundi.
The ‘12 systems’ methodology was applied to generate a more integrated and humane architectural design. Apart from that, several construction elements have been generated according to the OS grid.
The resulting proposals are currently being further tested and refined by BrusselsCooperation. This work in progress can be monitored on their blog.
BIOSK
A coffeeshop that generates its own energy.
Herbus Habilis
A temporarly wooden structure to host an art festival in the woods.
‘The Spartacus lightrail system.’
A vision on mobility.
The Kilternan Institute
A reconversion plan for an abandoned luxury hotel near Dublin, Ireland.
THE ECONOMAT
A social machine for the neighborhood.
The OS WaterBoiler by Jesse Howard.
The WaterBoiler is an appliance that uses the OpenStructures design principles to explore an adaptable and scalable production process.
Download poster transparancy.pdf.
