- Describe what you want to design and the context (who, where, when, why & how).
- Include:
- a sentence about your team’s personal connection to this context
- the sustainability element
- a project code-name
TEAM LATAR
Domain: Off the grid
NOTES
1 family? Community of 2-3 families?
Location: Rural British Columbia
Complex (potentially within a larger city) that generates all its own food, water, and power.
Food: Aquaponics system
Power: solar, (maybe wind, maybe tidal, maybe hydraulic, maybe geothermal, maybe nuclear, maybe compost waste / combustion of waste)
Water: rainwater, groundwater, reused (graywater),
housing: lumber
recycled plastics to create resources
only unsustainable materials are electrical components probably
composting
we should have bees
community comes though having the families interact by trading produce and working together
more subsistence farming
Very little land use
Clean Community (off-the-grid domain)
We are designing an entirely self-sufficient community of around 12 people with minimal land use and sub-zero emissions. The community is based around an aquaponics food system and renewable energy sources. A self-contained environment while still having access to modern appliances, as well as outside communication and health systems. Participation in this sort of living system is entirely voluntary. Since we are looking at ourselves 30 years from now, there are a number of reasons we believe that we (or others) would want to live in this situation. First, subsistence living means that we would not need to have a full-time job to support ourselves and buy food. Second, growing your own food gives you access to the freshest and healthiest options. Finally, it creates a community where everyone works together to help the entire community thrive. Each of these benefits’ mental health, physical health, and overall happiness. The ‘product’ we will be designing is a modular, premade system to set up different aspects of this community, so that people who wish to live like this can, and barriers to entry can be lowered. This is project ‘Clean Community.’