open source urbanism seems to be a big idea here that allows normal citizen has an access for building up his part of the city. it provides the basic requirement for the bottom to top structure of the smart city. In the reading, it introduces some open source device such as Arduino. A single building is the basic component of the city, thus Puts the open source into a building scale. what makes a house an open source house?
Should the open source of a building start from design phase? what will be an open source designed building? a design that uploads to the internet and users can download and combine the design by themselves?
Nowadays, in the countryside of China, with the increasing of the income of the people, people start to build their own house, however, without an architect. The purpose of the absence of the architect is budget control. However, for lots of cases, the budget is wasted due to lack of design. it seems that an open source house design will be a good solution. How does an open source house in the town become the start point of the open source town or small city?