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BuildIY is desiged to give an owner-builder the best opportunity to navigate and adhere to the unique regulatory requirements without major adverse effects on project pricing or budget typically associated.

DO IT YOURSELF?

The design developed is inspired by the ethos and methods of Australia's 1970s countercultural owner-builders, who used basic, structurally sound building conventions and practices as the start point to create highly individualistic buildings. BuildIY, the semi-prefabricated modular system developed is not concerned with property value or dictating a lifestyle, it facilitates the construction of shelter, your shelter. Acting as a blank canvas for owner-builders to “realise their philosophies and beliefs in the very walls they inhabit.” The system is developed to be responsive to the site allowing for a renewed relationship between Australian housing, local contexts and nature.

The system is simple to use, layout a 600x600 grid over the site and place your desired components in any configuration within the building envelope.

The system is simple to use, layout a 600x600 grid over the site and place your desired components in any configuration within the building envelope.

The system is a weatherproof and structurally-sound canvas for owner-builders to adapt to their aesthetic tastes and design ambitions, leaning into the greatest benefits of doing-it-yourself, freedom, control and self-actualisation.

The system is a weatherproof and structurally-sound canvas for owner-builders to adapt to their aesthetic tastes and design ambitions, leaning into the greatest benefits of doing-it-yourself, freedom, control and self-actualisation.

The needs, challenges and motivations of an owner-builderare considered at every stage of the project, designing a process of delivery tailored to improving the owner-builder experience and likelihood of success.

The needs, challenges and motivations of an owner-builderare considered at every stage of the project, designing a process of delivery tailored to improving the owner-builder experience and likelihood of success.

Simple, expediated sequencing through construction stages assist with loan and development applications with most of the construction contained within the prefabricated components making feasibility and cost reviews precise.

Simple, expediated sequencing through construction stages assist with loan and development applications with most of the construction contained within the prefabricated components making feasibility and cost reviews precise.

The owner-builder is allowed construction freedom after lock-up, getting hands-on, with the 600x600 standardised grid making their work during the internal fix-out easy.

The owner-builder is allowed construction freedom after lock-up, getting hands-on, with the 600x600 standardised grid making their work during the internal fix-out easy.