ABSTRACT
The current process of building one's housing is primarily structured around fixed entities, at the end of which the inhabitant is the one lacking all real participation. Due to social changes, technological innovations, and industrial developments, the need to accommodate inhabitants as well as trying to ensure future markets, people sometimes encounter interesting examples of other forms of – in fact traditional – housing, sometimes initiated by project developers and/or building companies. An actual developments is “tiny housing,” i.e., small houses with a floor plan of 25–50 m2, preferably located in the periphery of cities in rural or natural areas. An interesting industrially innovative building development since 2011 – comes from the UK: Wikihouse. It consists of an industrialized system of open design and prefabricated elements of which characters, measures, and technology are available as open-source data, to be downloaded and provided to a manufacturing plant with an adequate computer numerical control machine.
