Sustainable+Design

Sustainable Design :

1. What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve? The problem is the mindset of lots architects around the world who think that architecture is about create a jewel that is placed in one place and not means to solve a community's problems through quick and simple ideas. What he is trying to do is to involve architects around the world in humanitarian work through the creation of sustainable designs taking into account that when they are designing can improve or worsen the situation of the community.

2. How did he face these problems? He created a website where architects and designers around the world can volunteer present their designs to solve dwelling problems in communities that have suffered natural disasters or are found in developing countries. The idea was to create an open business model where people in need could have contact with architects from the same community to solve the problems together, so local problems have local solutions.

3. Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him Between the architectural solutions that Cameron present on the video there is a transitional shelter that won the open design competition in Kosovo. This shelter should last between 5 and 10 years and is placed on the ground of each person to gradually build their homes near to their shelter. There is a table hemp house that was built and works its looks like a big football ball with tow windows on the sides. There is a kenaf clinic. The people get seed and they grow it in a plot of land this plant grows 14 feet in a month. So on the fourth week, the doctors come and they mow out an area put a tensile structure on the top and when the doctors have finished treating and seeing patients in villagers the people cut down the clinic and they eat it. Between the architectural solutions there is also a school in Sri Lanka built by the UN, when the rain comes down children can't hear anything and in the summer it's about 140 degrees inside they solved this issue by constructing a school with a rain water collection system of very low cost and also was built by the parents of the kids.

4. What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world? The "open-source architecture to house the world" is an open database where all architects, designers and engineers voluntarily put their designs so they can be used freely by the people in need around the world, so in this way anyone with Internet access can use or mofidy the designs. Cameron Sinclair created the "Creative Commons Developing Nations license" for every designer can be copyrighted.Once uploaded to the database; designs are tested in simulations of disaster to ensure the strength under adverse conditions.

5. In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video? Architecture has a social impact on the community for this reason architects and designers should be more involved in humanitarian aid through sustainable design. Not only because most of the human population in this planet is in crisis and the situation is getting worse but there are many natural disasters everywhere at anytime and is not possible to be fully prepared. So doesn’t matter where you look there is going to be a problem that architects and engineer can solve and most of the time the solution is simple.