Open
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OSA · Free housing isn't a dream. It's an engineering problem.

Abundance is an engineering problem, not an economic one.
Earth provides the materials. The sun provides the energy.
AI coordinates the construction.
The only thing missing is the decision to build it.

O Open knowledge, plans, code. No gatekeepers. No owners. S Source accumulated human intelligence, running on silicon. Available to all. A Activism direct action. We build. We don't wait for permission.

The real problem

Conventional thinking says "affordable housing" is the problem. That accepts a false premise.

What actually costs money: land (artificial scarcity enforced by law), permits (permission fees and bureaucracy), labor (being solved right now by automation), and profit margins (middlemen extracting value).

Three of these are human inventions. One is being solved by the same forces that invented the problem.

The problem with boxes

The rectangular room, the square house, the cubic apartment block — the box has become so dominant in human shelter that we have stopped questioning it. We build boxes because we have always built boxes. Not because boxes are good.

The box
  • Sharp corners collect structural stress
  • Flat roofs fail under load
  • Maximum material for minimum strength
  • Poor thermal efficiency
  • High waste in construction
  • Expensive to build and maintain
  • Disconnected from natural forms
The dome
  • Stress distributed across entire structure
  • Strongest shape known to engineering
  • Minimum material for maximum strength
  • Superior thermal performance
  • Less waste, faster construction
  • Lower long-term cost
  • Found throughout nature

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.

The shoulders we stand on

Fuller spent his life proving that doing more with lessephemeralization — 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 exists to continue their unfinished work — using open source tools, accumulated human intelligence, and modern fabrication to make dome living accessible, practical, and undeniable.

How we get there

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.

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Open designs, freely shared Every dome design, every Blender file, every calculation is published openly. No patents. No paywalls. The knowledge belongs to everyone.
02
Start small, prove the concept A dome for a dog. A dome for a garden. A dome for a workshop. Each small dome built is proof of concept — and proof changes minds faster than argument.
03
AI coordinates what managers used to control Parametric design, open source tools, accumulated human intelligence. These are not replacements for human craft — they are amplifiers of it. We use every tool available.
04
FreeBSD-first, system-agnostic Built for servers, not laptops: stable, secure, auditable. OSA runs on FreeBSD, Linux, ARM, x86. Our designs work with local materials, local builders, local conditions.
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Circular, not linear Every material should complete a cycle. Every structure should outlast its builder. Every design should be improvable by whoever comes next.

Two projects, one mission

OSA is not a future plan. It is happening now, in the open.

OSA — Geodesic Domes

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 dog dome to family dwelling. Superior strength, thermal efficiency, material efficiency, construction speed. Long-term: designs that can be built anywhere, by anyone, with local materials.

Blender · Open files · samob.netlify.app

Clawdie — Intelligent Assistant

Clawdie is an intelligent assistant on FreeBSD. Helps build the future — from code to geodesic dome components. Telegram interface, Postgres memory, tmux glass-pane console. Your machine, your rules.

The infrastructure: coordinates design from geodesic vision to dome, logistics, and shared knowledge. Living proof that accumulated human intelligence works — self-hosted, portable, auditable. The missing link between OSA vision and construction reality.

FreeBSD · Self-hosted · clawdie.si

Join the transition

OSA 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.

This server

osa.smilepowered.org 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.