OSA · A home without decades of debt is not a utopia. It is an engineering challenge.
Owning a home is not just about money. It is also about how we build. For centuries, we have favored rectangular boxes.
Earth provides the materials. The sun provides the energy.
Efficient geometry and open-source plans can reduce material use and costs.
The next step is to start building differently! With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and newly developed digital tools, we can put this knowledge into practice.
Conventional thinking says "affordable housing" is an unsolvable problem. But the question is asked backwards.
Why is owning a home so expensive? Several factors drive the cost: inflated land prices, often pushed higher by legal restrictions, bureaucracy with unnecessary permits and fees, middlemen extracting value at every step, and mortgages that turn home ownership into decades of debt repayment.
These are rules and systems created by humans, not laws of physics. With an engineering approach and open-source building plans, we can break that cycle.
A rectangular building is not always wrong. In crowded cities, it made efficient use of small plots, shared walls, and buildings placed side by side more practical. The problem arises when we treat that urban compromise as the only possible form of shelter.
The rectangular room, the square house, and the cubic apartment block are forms that became widespread because space was scarce. They became so familiar that we stopped questioning where they came from.
Yet the Earth is vast. Outside dense urban grids, we have open space, sunlight, and nature. Why build in the shape of urban constraint out in the open?
We build boxes because we have always built them. Not because they are always the best form.
A geodesic dome encloses more volume per unit of surface area than any other structure. It distributes stress so evenly that it actually gets stronger under load. Buckminster Fuller understood this in the 1940s. The question is why we are still building boxes in 2026.
Fuller spent his life proving that “doing more with less” is not idealism but engineering. Fresco spent his life designing the cities and structures of a post-scarcity world. Both were ignored by mainstream architecture and housing industries. Both were right.
OSA was founded to continue their unfinished ideas. Using open-source approaches, sharing knowledge, and with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it explores and presents overlooked building technologies that could contribute to realizing every person's basic right to a safe and accessible home.
Not through political parties, not through street protests, not through the next election, left or right. We propose an “anarchist approach”. No passive submission to authority. It is time to build a new model that makes the current one obsolete.
The right to repair is older than any regulation. A hundred years ago people built with wood, stone, and brick, and these houses still stand. When a roof leaked, they repaired it themselves.
No authority granted this knowledge. It passed from parents to neighbors, from hand to hand, for centuries. The modern system has largely pushed it out of everyday life.
This does not mean that safety regulations are unnecessary. It means that we must distinguish between rules that genuinely protect us and rules that primarily collect money.
The right to repair one's own home is not granted by any act. We carry it with us. We already demand this right for phones and tractors. A home deserves it just as much.
Buckminster Fuller developed the geometric and structural language of geodesic domes. Jacque Fresco offered a vision of an automated, resource-balanced social system.
Fuller contributed the geometry. Fresco offered the vision. OSA adds open plans, local fabrication, and a digital assistant for people who want to build.
Today, OSA asks a practical question: how do we bring open plans, local fabrication, and modern digital tools directly to an individual builder or small community?
Parametric 3D models built in Blender using geometry nodes. Freely downloadable .blend files. Start with a 9-metre dome.
The vision: open-source housing that scales from a small dome to a family dwelling. Superior strength, thermal efficiency, material efficiency, construction speed. Long-term: designs that can be built anywhere, by anyone, with local materials.
Human operator · samob.clawdie.siClawdie is designed as a local digital assistant on this path, running on FreeBSD. It can assist in understanding blueprints, adapting parametric 3D models, comparing materials, and organizing construction.
Note: Structural and engineering calculations must always be verified by a qualified professional.
FreeBSD · Self-hosted · clawdie.siOSA has no membership, no fees, no application form. If you share these principles, you are already part of it. Build something. Share it. Make the box obsolete.
osa.clawdie.si runs on FreeBSD 15, nginx, and Let's Encrypt. Entirely open source, self-hosted, zero corporate cloud dependency. It is itself a small act of what OSA means in practice.
Fork this idea. Improve it. Build on it. The manifesto is the starting point, not the destination.