| Sumario: | The writer, an architect and founding director of architects and software developer Slider Studio, discusses a plan developed by the studio to help people build quality homes in areas where they want to live. Currently, potential residents of new developments never get a chance to have an input on the design of their home or neighborhood during design development stages. To this end, Slider Studio has developed a hybrid system combining the benefits of self-build with the efficiencies of volume house building, called “enabled self procurement” or ESP. The plan is based on the division of public sector land banks into individual serviced housing plots by an “enabling developer,” which are then sold off with planning permission attached. To develop the ESP model, the studio tested a 3D online simulation called the YouCanPlan, which allows enabled self builders to customize and build their own homes.
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