The URBox concept encompasses the high tech end of solar energy and informal low cost and affordable housing. URbox aims to contribute to solving the global energy crisis by building solar energy settlements in deserts where land is affordable and sunshine in abundance. To that purpose, new solutions in the field of housing have been developed with the URBox formula, call it open, call it lean. Its formula is based on construction rules applied to an urban pixel of housing, the smallest identifiable practical dwelling unit. The URBox units can then be combined as multifunctional houses, and settlements. The same idea can be applied on the industrialized world with its own housing crises, presenting themselves in niche markets of housing for starters and low-income housing. At this moment URBox can be illustrated by sketching scenarios, in order to demonstrate its universality.
Like solar power knowledge is indestructible and infinite. This is a call for academic support to make the knowledge and design power available in order to tackle the crises we face.