CORE housing system

A worldwide mass produced CORE with state of the art solar oven, thermal & pv, water collection, and maybe a waterless toilet could be surround by hand built perimeter walls of native materials. Passive solar plans with thermal mass would be included in a package to produce a low cost home inclusive of as much current design and technology as possible.  

The architectural question of "what does a BRICK want to be" should be updated to "what does a CORE want to be". 

Basic safe livable homes would reduce an increasing population's toll on natural resources, the environment, infrastructure, and transportation required to earn the money to pay for it all. We must develop an off the shelf product to help people live, using a minimal footprint.

A large percentage of physical and mental help problems could be reduced by producing an inexpensive value engineered basic home. 

Houses, water, and energy have become commodities with
artificial upward cost pressures from aging infrastructures,
easy money and outdated construction methods. Affordable
sustainable housing for a growing population will require a
centralized construction platform on a massive scale,
produced and sold similar to the computer and automotive
industries. To avoid the cost of shipping large prefabricated
open spaces, the hybrid 'Core' system will focus on the most
technical spaces, including state of the art installed
technology for decentralized energy production, storage and
filtered water collection.
The Core concept designs will be for multiple building types,
sizes, uses and locations to maximize cost savings and help
reduce the impact of future energy, water, and income
shortages.

Mass produced CORE housing system.
At the center of the hybrid factory/site built home is a prefab
container 'core' that will include a kitchen and bathroom with
plumbing, electrical, mechanical and state of the art
renewable energy and water systems. The regional and site
specific perimeter walls and roof could be built of wood 2 x
framing, sip panels, straw bales, auto-claved concrete, adobe
bricks, earth coil domes, tent fabric or maybe even a future
'foamcrete' poured into a mold or layered with a large 3-d
printer.
The core could be off grid to allow for livable shelter were
there is no infrastructure. Larger buildings will have 'captured'
spaces with pre-fabricated wall and roof components.
The design and site planning will adapt to multiple users
and worldwide locations.
There will be city infill town homes, assisted living buildings,
tract and custom homes, homeless units, farm worker,
apartments and low rise stacked flats. The Core shelter homes
will have the lowest combined
embedded, construction, and occupancy carbon footprint
possible. The floor plans will be minimal, 560
square feet for a family of 4, etc. The designs will include
passive solar, night flush ventilation and
thermal mass. There will be built in filtered water collection
and storage, allowing for water rationing
as needed. Some areas areas in the world are now allowed
only a bathtub full of potable water, once a
week. Grey water, compost toilets, hand cranked clothes
washer can be included. An automated slide
out garden cover/ green house with drip irrigation.
Self contained homes will reduce the need for new
infrastructure.
The self contained home option has attached hinged walls,
allowing a delivered 20' container to fold out into
a 560 square foot home. The assisted living building will have
8 or 16 (2 story) cores surrounding a
'captured' common area. The stacked flats will have 3 high
welded structural cores surrounded by site
built open spaces. The apartment core will be sited with space
to allow for do-it your self construction
of the attached rooms. Farm worker and homeless units will
be movable. Core shelter will help reverse
our current unsustainable practice of using energy from the
past and borrowing money from the future.

As an architect I am trying to organize the right group of public and private groups together to start an industry building the house of the future.

I have been in touch with Los Angeles city officials regarding homelessness, habitat for humanity, and Puerto Rico after the hurricane, where the interest of the product could not followed up with a mass produced finished product.

The classic cart before the house issue. Why not a live work/factory of homeless vets in Long Beach and other port cities producing CORE homes available for shipment worldwide. 

I am 100% sure the core concept is the house of the future. After many hours talking and writing to people, I have not been able to get traction.

Through out major cities, tax money is thrown at 400,000 "affordable" homes and the only way to solve the issue is for the city governments to work together to start building mass producing a concept such as this.