FACIT Homes

FACIT Homes

Bespoke architecture
Digital fabrication
Sustainable living

A unique approach to making homes

"The Facit building system employs digital technology to produce bespoke houses made from prefabricated timber cassettes

It’s hardly surprising that Facit UK compares its prefabricated timber building system with Lego.
Showcased in the House that Kevin [McCloud] Built at the Grand Designs Live exhibition in May, the Facit approach uses numbered timber-based, ready insulated ‘boxes’ to create bespoke houses.
“The thing about Lego is that it’s the accuracy and tolerances that hold it together,” said Bruce Bell, one quarter of the team behind Facit. “When you put one block on top of another, if it was loose, the whole thing would fall apart. With our system, all the pieces interlock: the stiffness in the boxes is reliant on the timber, not the fixings; when you put one box next to another, the tolerances on site are so tight that you can’t put your fingernail between each cassette. This means the whole system is extremely rigid.”
Described as a “digital method for fabricating intricately designed buildings using computer controlled machines”, the Facit system is the brainchild of designer and artist Bell, architect Nick Wilson, design and production specialist Dominic McCausland and 3D architectural specialist Andrew Goodeve.
Essentially, Facit is a semi-modular system that is digitally designed and produced to create bespoke houses made from prefabricated timber cassettes. These cassettes are manufactured on a CNC router, integrating all the services, and each one has a number etched into it. The numbers correspond to the building plans so that all the contractor has to do on site is follow the plan. Put simply, it’s like building with numbers.
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