About ExoSett

Why are we here?

Too often, the accommodation people need is unavailable, unsuitable, in the wrong place or too difficult to change.

Temporary accommodation becomes effectively permanent. Buildings struggle to adapt as lives and needs change. Useful structures are discarded because the rooms inside no longer suit their purpose. And when accommodation is needed urgently, providing it can take far too long.

ExoSett exists to explore whether buildings can adapt more readily — allowing useful accommodation to be added, changed, moved or replaced without treating the whole building as disposable.

What are we doing about it?

We are exploring a building approach in which useful structure, access and services can remain while the accommodation they support changes over time. The aim is not change for its own sake, but buildings that can keep serving people when circumstances move on.

Origins

Beginning with a simple question

ExoSett began with a question: could a modular building be designed so that any accommodation module could be removed without depending on the modules around or beneath it?

It led to an exoskeletal frame in which modules are hosted rather than stacked, then to a wider system intended to let accommodation change while other useful parts of the building remain.

The name ExoSett reflects those two central ideas: an external structural skeleton and a place in which accommodation modules can be settled, removed and settled again.

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Contact

Discuss ExoSett

To discuss ExoSett, email info@exosett.com