Sustainable+Design


 * ...﻿SUSTAINABLE DESIGN... **


 * Answer of the Video **

** What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve? ** Cameron wanted to solve major problems such as housing problems lost following causes of natural phenomena such tsunamis or earthquakes, also others problems like economics, health and education. According to Cameron, the use of sustainable design in architecture and urbanism would be a good start to improving the quality of life of people and solve these problems.

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** How did he face these problems? ** Has a few years looking for solutions to address these problems began in 1999 in response to the housing crisis for those affected by natural disasters, creating a website where everyone could comment and gives some solutions. Then, he promoted social responsibility and sustainable design to solve the crisis, raising funds and developing design competitions to have technical assistance as architects and designers who were available to help these communities.

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** Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him ** Africa. The increase of HIV led to take sanitary measures more intense, so involved in creating the best designs sustainable clinics, mobile clinics and community centers. One idea was to create clinics through the planting of seeds, the plant grew and formed walls, consultations are carried out and then have some period of use could be destroyed or eating.

Kosovo. The project involved the construction of temporary shelters. The shelters were built on land where they were going to build houses for refugees.

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School of Design. Sustainable schools that were conducted had a particular design of rainwater catchment, and were built by parents of students.

Siyathemba. The project was a sports center for girls, with the purpose to reduce the high infection rates of HIV, increasing educational levels as a center of information on this sickness and as a sports center where the coaches also had medical knowledge.

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** What is the meaning of //open-source architecture to house the world//? ** The meaning of open-source architecture is that through the Internet was possible to share ideas for projects, also share different solutions to global problems of housing. Internet is a great tool to maintain communication between different communities, to form debates, and designers can be respond problems reported, and the same way using the web the community decided and approves projects.

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** In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video? ** In my opinion, the most important message that transmits this video is that it should promote community or social support. Create conscience of the need to help people, and there are many ways that which we can help, and one of them is like urban professionals or architecture, we can share our knowledge and ideas to solve global crisis.

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