Boklok Concept Housing by Ikea

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Fun sounding name is Boklok. Pronounced, Boo Clook.

A concept housing from Ikea and some other partners. It’s an affordable housing system. Well at least, affordable to the people where it is currently marketed like Germany, UK and other well-off Euro countries.

The concept is based on customers’ real needs and wishes, a safe environment, roominess and access to green space. The state-of-the-art, Scandinavian-style timber framed properties will be primarily aimed at households earning between £15,000 and £35,000 a year and will be sold on an outright sale or shared ownership basis.

The BoKlok products are straightforward and designed to attract many people. They are full of cost efficient and smart solutions. All products have a wooden construction. Wood is the only renewable construction material. Smart design together with modern and sustainable productions methods guarantee low energy consumption.

The idea is for well-produced modern homes be available for ordinary people. Therefore, to spread the concept Boklok does franchising of the concept. But don’t expect that Boklok will be in the Philippines soon. If an Ikea furniture store franchise in the Philippines is hard to get, a housing franchise (the technology transfer, the logistics, consistency of materials sourced from the Philippines vs the Europe-quality they have there, etc.) is many times harder to get.

But other biggie developers and contractors here in the Philippines can learn from the concept. So that, more Filipinos will have the chance to own non-boxed type housing, cramped spaces, poorly-designed mass-housing in the suburbs.

More houses, er, info in here.