Sustainable_Design



=-> EXAMPLES OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN=



He wanted to respond to the issue of the housing crisis for returning refugees in Kosovo and others affected by natural disasters.
 * 1) 1. What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve?

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He started an organization to get architects and designers involved in humanitarian work. They started a website that helped them to be known throughout the world and allowing others to participate and collaborate with the project.
 * 1) 2. How did he face these problems?

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Using rubble from destroyed homes to create new homes Using straw bale construction Creating heat walls Mobile health clinics widely distributed throughout Africa
 * 1) 3. Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him

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It is a network made to improve global living standards offering innovative solutions to housing problems around the world. The idea of the project is to gather people, not only workers from outside the damaged communities, but the very people who live in them, to work together and these people can rebuild their houses and their whole communities helping each other with low budget, low cost, and of course eco-friendly solutions.
 * 1) 4. What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world?

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The most important message I get from the video came when he explain the kenaf clinic (that is a house made of edible greens, when the doctors finish using it, it gets cut down and used as food) because the idea that architecture is not just about solutions, but about raising awareness. So you can see ideas, and these ideas developed into prototypes, and they were eventually built supported in sustainable design that contributes to the environment.
 * 1) 5. In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video?

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