Sustainable+Design

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN



Examples of Sustainable Structures







1. What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve? He wanted to help communities and the people living in them using sustainable architecture. These people were left without houses and shelters because of natural disasters such as tsunamis and strong storms.

2. How did he face these problems? He used internet tools to round up architects who wanted to help him with his non-profit housing project. In this way, through a website, he contacted other workers, designers and people who wanted to get involved in making a change in the lives of people who needed help.

3. Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him: Using rubble from destroyed homes to create new homes Mobile health clinics widely distributed throughout africa An "eat your own clinic", a house made of edible greens, when the doctors finish using it, it gets cut down and used as food. Rain water collection systems in schools

4. What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world? It is a network made to improve global living standards offering innovative solutions to housing problems around the world. Whether rebuilding, designing, housing or helping, the idea of the whole project is to gather people, and not only workers from outside the damaged communities, but the very people who live in them, and educate, teach and share knowledge useful for their survival and healthcare. Together these people can rebuild their houses and their whole communities helping each other with green, low cost, low budget, eco-friendly solutions.

5. In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video? The most important message is that talk is cheap. In my opinion Cameron speaks the truth when he says that talking will not get you very far. If you want change in the world and if you want to help the people in need you have to start acting yourself, gathering information, people, knowledge, workers, every little step counts. The important thing is that you act up and do something about the problems in the world with small innovative solutions that can go a long way helping areas in crisis. This way, you motivate others to start doing the same and these people motivate other people, so on and so forth, until communities that were once destroyed begin to rebuild themselves and are capable of managing themselves in other times of threat and danger.