Sustainable+Design.



1. What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve?

He wanted to improve people’s life and help them to get through rough times. Like he said “We believe that where the resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable design and collaborative can really make a difference in people’s life.” And he had a really great philosophy “You are not just doing a building for the residents or the people that’s going to use it, but for a community as a whole.” So his great work started in 1990, when they helped in the issue of the housing crisis for returning refugees in Kosovo.

2. How did he face these problems?

He started a website to pull a call out there so other people could help out and, for his first website project, in a couple of months, they had hundreds of entries from around the world.

3. Explain four of the architectural solutions presented by him

The solutions that he presented on the speech are projects that are completely sustainable. And that’s because, in his own words “when you live on 4 dollars a day, you’re living on survival and you have to be sustainable. You have to know where your energy is coming from, you have to know where your resource its coming from. And you have to keep the maintenance down. ” Some of these projects are for example the one in Kosovo where he had to design a transitional shelter that would last five to ten years that would be placed next to the land where the resident lived in, and that they would rebuilt their own home. It wasn’t about imposing an architecture on the community, it was giving them the tools and the spaces for them to do it.

And in Africa the idea was to get the doctors to the people, so they came up with the idea of mobile health clinics. Architecture it’s not just about solutions but about raising awareness.

4. What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world?

According to him if we do nothing about the housing crisis that’s about to happen, in 20 years one in three people will live in an unplanned settlement or refugee camp. Look left, look right: one of you will be there. How do we improve the living standards of five billion people? With ten million solutions. So I wish to develop a community that actively embraces innovative and sustainable design to improve the living conditions for everyone

5. In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video?

The most important message for me is that architecture its not just about designing something beautiful, or a jewel like he said. Architecture its also a great instrument to help the people around the world, help them trough the rough times, all the natural disasters around the world.

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