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Neighbourhood Factory Futures

WeCanMake

Their prototype will explore a homegrown timber kit-of-parts construction system for low-rise apartment buildings.

The team onsite assembling an early WeCanMake home. Photography by: Iboyla Feher

WeCanMake poses the idea of the UK becoming a nation of growers, producers, and makers using homegrown biomaterials and re-use materials to create good homes that store rather than emit carbon.

Their prototype will explore a homegrown timber kit-of-parts construction system for low-rise apartment buildings. They are aiming to create a model for a neighbourhood factory, community-led construction that allows local neighbourhoods to build as well as maintain their own homes, producing housing from sustainable materials - namely timber. 

An exploded axonometric of WeCanMake’s Demonstrator Site Rodfords Mead. Courtesy of WeCanMake

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WeCanMake

WeCanMake poses the idea of the UK becoming a nation of growers, producers, and makers using homegrown biomaterials and re-use materials to create good homes that store rather than emit carbon.

Melissa Mean

Melissa Mean is the director of We Can Make, a community-led response to the housing crisis. We Can Make is a programme which supports citizens and communities to create affordable homes when and

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