I've been following Peters new design closely too, and since he is still working on it I'm not sure if there is a firm answer to a lot of these questions yet.
If you want to stay up to date, here is the development forum he regularly updates on Donkeys board:
https://donkey32.proboards.com/thread/3710/combi-dsr1-latest-vortex-aspects
I do have a lot of the same questions... I just haven't asked them yet, knowing that he is actively working on this and will release design perimeters when they are finalized.
The home-made "riser" cylinder in described in the development forum.
I would speculate that there will not be an open system version. I run an open DSR2 and the compromise of the open system is that it sacrifices some efficiency, and this new design aims to be very efficient and achieve a European certification of some kind.