Ward, PaulCastro, IvanFiorelli, ThomasFretz, MarkKo, YekangLee, JunhakRussel, Koryda Silva Correa Leite, CarolinaVan Den Wymelenberg, Kevin2024-07-182024-07-182020Ward, P., Castro, I., Fiorelli, T., Fretz, M., Ko, Y., Lee, J., Russel, K., da Silva Correa Leite, C. & Van Den Wymelenberg, K. (2020). Open Home Project: Designing Modular Housing and Landscapes for Resilient Communities. ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2965016 pagesAffordable, energy efficient, and healthy housing is a key component of individual, community, and planetary resilience and is increasingly scarce in both rural and urban regions on the West Coast of the US and many other locations globally. To address this issue, we assembled a diverse team including designers, manufacturers, researchers, economic and legal experts, community organizers, and students from many fields to develop complementary systems for modular, affordable housing and supportive site enhancements. By pursuing an ‘open-source’ design process, our research and concepts are shared freely to engage and welcome input from a broad spectrum of perspectives. Our goal is to leverage disruptive new technologies like mass-timber panelized digital manufacturing, distributed energy production/storage, and water reclamation micro-grids to support systems-based approaches to creating affordable housing and resilient communities. Our flexible modular solution is rapidly deployable, reconfigurable, and relocatable. It includes on-board photovoltaic arrays and battery storage and can be positioned as a standalone accessory dwelling unit or as a cluster community. We propose service-based and on-site approaches to water and waste treatment in response to different configurations and contexts. Each unit provides much-needed housing while reinforcing the local utility grid and providing essential services during grid-disrupting events. This paper documents initial results of ongoing research, financial and sociopolitical implementation plans, and site improvement and modular housing system concepts. Moreover, we invite the ACEEE community to contribute their expertise as part of open source knowledge network.Articleen-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USOpen Home Projectaffordable housinghousing constructionenergyArticle