Regenerative
Healthy
Innovative
Affordable
The FAST SLOW Concept
Building houses out of bio-based materials (earth, clay, sand, straw and hemp) has a low carbon footprint, is DIY friendly, helps create communities and increases personal and planetary wellbeing.
Despite this, currently to build with these materials it is time consuming and expensive. So, to make bio-based houses more efficient to build, and affordable for more people, we introduce the FAST SLOW house.
The FAST SLOW house is a high performance FAST prefabricated DIY timber framed kit home, which home builders can quickly assemble, enabling them time to SLOW down and fill the frame with earth, and fit out the interior.
The FAST SLOW Mission
Our aim is to streamline the approval and construction process. Eventually code-marking both the framing system and infill, to make natural building more available to more people
The FAST SLOW system provides solutions to the housing and sustainability crisis, while creating a platform that promotes both builder and occupant wellbeing.
FASTSLOW House eco ply frame - hempclay infill
FASTSLOW House University of Newcastle - structural tension testing
the FASTSLOW team
The innovative, cutting-edge FAST SLOW house is being developed by a team with vast architecture and building experience from the University of Newcastle and Mudtec, who are driven to make more sustainable and affordable housing.
Project Timeline
2024
Concept development
Initial concepts, structural details and design
2024
2024/25
R&D
Research and development commence sample panels and tests on structural components
2025
Workshops
First Pilot House build workshops commence late 2025
2025
2026
1st Pilot House
First Pilot House completed
2026
Workshops
Second Pilot House build workshops commence late 2026
2026
2026/27
Additional Pilot Houses
Additional pilot houses completed
2027
SCALING UP
FAST SLOW Production Optimisation
2027
Events & Publicity
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A Partnership Project between Mudtec and The University of Newcastle