Nomadomo language

I want to create buildings with almost the ease of LEGO®. This text is about the foundations of such a system. Which blocks are possible and not too heavy and how do you get them together in a constructive and fire resistant way....

Nomadomo as a way of building houses is not a system but rather a language in which - and some principles with which - anything is possible. The idea is to create a language and a standard so that as many people as possible can copy it with natural, local resources. With a few dozen elements, you can build your first house and slowly expand it.

These foundations are for me an analysis of many of the designs I made in recent years. With this analysis I can extract the essence and make choices. These choices and the designs themselves are set out in a different text. Excuse me for my bad English. Feel free to annotate this text: Click in the upper right corner. [Bert Frederiks]

That is…: An open hardware model for liftable, functional building elements to create energy-efficient, "green" buildings and boats; stack like LEGO® and secure with fittings to form a rigid, self-supporting whole. Elements (pieces of wall, floor or roof) can contain all kinds of functionalities - kitchen, bed, cupboard, seat pit... You can make it so that if you move the building in parts, your things will move with you. It is the new living in a climate in motion; relocatable, fireproof, weatherproof, ecological, stackable, earthquake-proof.

Not all requirements listed below are necessary in terms of our building system, such as ecological requirements or weight requirements. But these are our conditions. In terms of principles, I think you should take as many requirements as possible to be as flexible as possible.

• Dismountable; more or less as if it were LEGO®,

• Lightweight; a module should be able to be lifted by two to four people,

• You have to be able to give a piece of house as an extension (like a tower) to someone as a gift,

• If you move the building, you move your things with it,

• No or hardly any foundation required, so

• Self-supporting and

• Floating.

• More than comply with the Dutch Buildings Decree, also for high-rise buildings - possibly with additions,

• Energy neutral,

• Suitable for the city, especially in terms of fire safety,

• Vapour open construction,

• As little glue and sealant as possible, preferably no glued wood,

• No or critical use of plastics - only EPDM, HDPE, other polyethenes and polyprotenes,

• If possible, natural and/or recycled insulation such as flax, wood wool, cotton, wool, diatomite and foam glass.

• No - or as little - tropical hardwood as possible,

• Basically earthquake and storm proof,

• Green roofs and walls on which food can grow; an "edible" house.

To explain in this text...

• Divisible skeleton with fire resistant cladding.

• Fire resistant side panels with rubber and compriband around the building elements.

• Link-beams or coupling plates or coupling bolts and coupling screws.

• An inner skeleton, a middle skeleton, an outer skeleton (and ditto isolation) but not necessarily all three.

• Floors constructed from trays.

• Concealed and elegant cable ducts for piping.

• Compact life: Wall and floorboards can have integrated functions, such as a cupboard, desk, kitchen, bed, seat pit...

• Edible house: Being able to eat from your house makes your house environmentally friendly. Green houses turn the city into a park.

• More water, less rock: Build more with nature, less against it.

• Glass walls and planter windows...

• Mount insulation in vapour-regulating bags.

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