Space Craft NZ LTD

builder — Atawhai · Nelson

About Space Craft NZ LTD

Space Craft is a New Zealand social enterprise that designs and builds houses and buildings from an open-source construction system called WikiHouse. Its office and address are at 8 Glenbrae Street in Atawhai, Nelson. The aim is small to medium homes, community spaces and business premises that are strong, healthy, affordable and sustainable. The system is meant to cut the cost of building, the cost of running and maintaining a building, and the cost of demolishing it at the end of its life.

The business also runs a facility called the WikiLab, which combines a design office, a workshop and a testing space for digital prototyping and manufacturing. The WikiLab is a community place to learn and make things, and the business describes it as a model for distributed manufacturing. Its Open Value Chain process brings community groups into the planning and delivery of buildings alongside private, public and non-government partners.