WikiHouse for community organisations

A building system made for communities

WikiHouse was created to make it easier for communities to build for themselves. It is a modular system that embodies the principles that drive community builders: local adaption, sustainability, and low barriers to entry. We believe places should be made by and for the people who live in them.

Beyond zero carbon

As well as creating buildings with superb fabric energy performance, WikiHouse also helps radically reduce embodied (or 'upfront') carbon emissions.

By using regionally-grown, bio-based materials, a typical WikiHouse project emits 20% of the carbon of a brick build. Better still, the wood actually stores more captured atmospheric carbon than it emits. So your build project can actually be net carbon negative.

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Don't just build space, build community.

WikiHouse blocks are manufactured in small local factories, supporting local jobs and SMEs, and building local economic capacity. It can be rapidly assembled by teams, even without traditional construction skills or experience. This offers opportunities for training and volunteering. What you end up with is more than a building – it's also the shared knowledge that 'we made that'.

Photo – Harry Knight

Photo – Jack Watts

Photo – Duke Makes

Less complexity,
more cost certainty

Modular building and digital design – when combined with careful planning and procurement – can help tame complexity, make costs easier to predict and reduce the risk of overruns. This is crucial for organisations that rely on funding to realise their projects.

Share global, manufacture local

With WikiHouse you are not tied to a single supplier – you can build your own local supply chain. But the system is open source, so everything you learn can also be shared to benefit a wider global community, helping others to follow in your footsteps.

Photo – Rory Gardiner

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Contact us

Get in touch to tell us a bit about you and your project. We'll help you explore whether WikiHouse is a good fit for your project.

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Assemble your team

If you don't already have a team, we will connect you with a design & build team where you are. Before you start to design, decide how you're going to procure and manage the project, and who is going to be involved.

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Design your scheme

Develop a scheme design and secure all required approvals. We can work with your design team to develop detailed chassis design and cutting files. This is the time to sweat every detail – then lock the design.

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Manufacture blocks

A local WikiHouse manufacturer will cut and assemble your blocks, ready to ship to site. This might include community volunteers getting involved in block assembly.

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Prepare site

Your build team will prepare foundations and site services first, ready to receive the WikiHouse chassis.

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Install

The WikiHouse chassis can be rapidly assembled on site by your build team in days. Then the windows, cladding and internal fit-out can be added, fast or slow.