Based on the OS design principles, the WaterBoiler’s (completely disassembleable) design and transparent construction invites users to adapt, repair, and combine with existing OpenStructures components. The limited complexity of the Boiler allows new partnerships to emerge that can adapt to the scale of production: a single unit designed as a DIY kit to one-thousand units produced in a collaboration of international suppliers and local manufacturers. Consistent application of simple and straightforward principles in design and production leads to an object that can evolve and adapt over time. 

The WaterBoiler is the first object that has been conceived at the OS Work_Shop in Brussels.

The OS Work/Shop is a first attempt to install, next to the online OS database, a kind of physical space that has all the OS parts and objects in storage and offers the infrastructure and assistance to design and develop new parts within the OS system.

View here.

We mounted an aluminium frame on the rear end of a vintage Piaggio Ape.
The cube as well as the ground plate of this rear end were designed and built according to the OS grid 
(the cube measures 120x120x120cm, consists out of aluminium tubes of 4x4cm and has 5mm perforations every 4cm).

The vehicle is now travelling through 5 Belgian cities, where 5 groups of students will build further on the vehicle / cube (each time giving it a different function) under the supervision of a different artist. At the end of this road trip the different installations will be brought together, disassembled and reconfigurated with one another.

To be continued ...


Concept & reconversion 
by Thomas Lommée and Jo Van Bostraeten

The CargoBike by Jo Van Bostraeten was featured in 'Velo'.

Commissioned by Kunstvereniging Diepenheim.

We were invited in Berlin by the DMY festival to present and puzzle with the OpenStructures project at their Makerlab event.
Some of the results are featured below.

Many thanks to Ake Rudolf and his crew for their efforts and the great event!

Mashing up the motorbloc (by Thomas Lommée + Jo Van Bostraeten) and CargoBike (by Jo Van Bostraeten) ...

Reconfiguring the transport box (by Laurens Bekemans and Thomas Lommée) into a table structure ..

Read the full article here.

Z33 – House for contemporary art and REcentre – centre for sustainable design presented ‘New Times, New Heroes’ at the design week in Milan. Through the exhibition over 20 designers and organizations connected with the OS project.

For the exhibition new OS parts and structures were designed by Johan Bruninx, Brussels Cooperation, Mieke Dierckx, Lizanne Dirkx, Ben Hagenaars, LInde Hermans, Christiane Hoegner, Pascal Koch, Sophie Lachaert, Lore Langendries, Maison Caro, Dick Van Hoff, Matt Sindall, Unfold and Rayah Wauters.