5) Description of housing product/service offering: This design reduces the cost of labor in building a home furnished with essentials like toilet and bath, bed, electrical wiring, plumbing and cooking area built in the house already. The main core material for this designer is recycled hardened glass because it is inert, durable, transparent and elegant. It is made possible by a master mold made from different methods of casting wherein the naked copper wire (if glass is used, it will function as the wire's insulation) for the electricals are embedded, the plumbings are made from the cavities made from the mold, the holed out bed that functions like a hammock, the chair and table are all already built it. Only the moving parts like the door parts, faucet, tank float for example are screwed in the molded threads. There are many versions and modules for this house design. There's a screwable version that can be used as a water tank and should a second floor be connected, the second floor is screwed in with the wirings and plumbing connecting to the 1st floor. There are versions that can be screwed into the ground and the house itself can have inverted wings for tornado prone areas. Since it is a seamless design, it is stronger than conventional house building. The cost effective materials for these are recycled plastics, metal, organic wastes and shredded plastics, paper mixed with plastics or clay/mud with straws. The molds can also be honeycombed to reduce cost and weight. Another cost effective core material that can start a community revolution in arctic zones, is water in the form of ice- the mold could be dipped into arctic waters and set or using distilled, dielectric water, the wiring could be embedded as well. A mold version could also include just the house itself and standard plumbing and electricals could be installed outside the inner walls if you use a mud or clay with recycled materials for example. There are other features of this design beside the ones mentioned above

6) Description of innovation: The design and technology tries to reduce cost by reducing the labor cost in building. It achieves this by being fully fabricated from the factory, with very little assembly.

7) Benefits to clients: With everything, once a technology, design or method are made into mass market, this innovation ultimately becomes common and thus it becomes affordable. It is further made affordable when the government or a large institution is involved.

8) Key operational partnerships: The best approach I believe is to license the design and methods to any organization to speed up its mass market status to reduce cost. When they have reached that status, their respective governments can opt to purchase these at bulk rates for donation.

9) Financial model: The only way to make it more affordable is for private citizens and the government to pull together and arrange for different methods of financing. The best though is donation through bulk purchase of units.

          • Costs as percentage of income: 7

          • Financing: I believe it is also profitable as well as self sustainable because it tries to use as much free raw materials as possible.

10) Effectiveness

          • Project outcomes: The designs I've recently submitted to other non-housing related contest are still on-going in terms of the judging.

          • Number of clients in past year: I have produced working bathroom and furniture designs for myself and my immediate family.

          • Percentage of clients that are poor or marginalized: 80

          • Potential demand: I have to say, greater than 5 million, plus a possible emerging residential or industrial sector in seemingly inhabitable places.

11) Scaling up strategy

          • Stage of the initiative: Start Up stage.

          • Expansion plan: I plan to license the design to as many interested organizations whose main priority is to produce quality units.

12) Origin of the initiative: The philosophy is, the perfect house is the Earth itself, that our homes and building are somewhat, a house (the Earth) within a house. The main goal is to enrich the living experience by living in a house as if you were living outside. The main choice for the mold material for me is hardened glass because it is inert, cool and will allow you to see outside. The most cost effective are either plastics with shredded plastics that function as fiber glass/dead organic materials like leaves and bones. Another affordable mold material is clay/mud with shredded plastics or organic materials. Another affordable mold material is water then frozen in Arctic regions. Lastly, a mold of aluminum or other metals. The seamless design would also be good for small boats and scientific research housing (it may use the transparency of glass for example). Seamless designs also makes the housings stronger.

Contact Information:
Alvin  Chan
Designer, Innovator and Digital Artist
Individual
(Individual)
82 Gem road, Pilar Village, Las Pinas City, 1740, Metro Manila
Philippines
Tel: 6328053482
Email: alvin777@mac.com
Website: http://www.applecatholic.com