Sustainable Village Designs and Implementations
Build Your Self-Sustainable Future
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"
- Buckminster Fuller
Our Worldwide laws & regulations are supporting & protecting the existing reality. The existing model is based on Growth/Consumer model & cheap energy(petroleum), and at the background, creating our Worldwide problems.
Our Worldwide society is running based on compartmentalization. Every subject is compartmentalised and analised separately and there is no system in place to compile those subjects into a meaning. Education, Healthcare, Financial systems, Agriculture, science, ... you name it. All sectors do not have a compilation mechanism to make an overall meaning.
Except Permaculture!
Below prototype is based on Permaculture concept and a bottom up approach, it can be a starting point to Sustainable future. It suggests to change the way we approach our worldwide issues, such as Energy, Affordable Housing, Farmers Financial issues, healthy food(agriculture), financial stability, loneliness. Instead of separating our issues & trying to solve them individually, it suggests creating a new thinking that those issues become obsolete.
Building ground vs Agricultural Landscape: Landscapes are defined/destined by laws & regulations into categories, such as Farmlands, Building grounds, Forests, Grasslands, etc. To build a housing area, we convert the farmland destined area into building destination. This conversion multiplies the ground prices. Farmlands become building grounds. It is the starting point for expensive housing and nature loss.
Below model is based on planetary approach and creating human neighbourhoods within natural environments. This is not a compartmentalised but a unified system. This mixed landscape doesn't exist in our governmental procedures yet.
In this model, Sustainable communities live in affordable & productive buildings, surrounded by gardening spaces, foodforests & community building/shared areas. They consiously contribute to unity and community to become sustainable. They are the pioneers of a sustainable future.
A long term lease model for farmers and/or governments allows substantial income for farmers and affordable housing solution for the governments. This is the first step for moving away from fossil fuel farming. Instead of tractors, we use sustainable communities for healthy food production.
This model can create a Sustainable communities within sustainable landscapes; Financially, Environmentally and Socially. A starting point for building a new World, living in harmony with our planet Earth.
This model is based on Permaculture understanding and my visions which come from the knowledge & experience I have accumulated since 2012.
Thanks for reading.
N.Tayfun Yalcin
Vision
Sustainability is the practice of maintaining ecological, social, and economic processes over time without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. It is defined officially as meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
We do not need to be all farmers or gardeners to achieve sustainability, but we all need to live in respect and alignment with our planet. How we design our homes and its surroundings direct our lifestyles and it is the key to creating sustainability.
The house shape is not the most important point. People can choose different styles. The most important thing is to create a Functionally Sustainable home within an affordable pricing.
A home with Functional Sustainability:
- Rainwater Harvesting & Recycling,
- Grey & Black water Filtering & Recycling - Energy(Electricity) creation
In this prototype, the housing materials are made of Wood & Hemp Lime. Enriched with sustainable energy, filtering, recycling technologies.
The House is only a part of the concept, a connected part within the Permaculture Landscaping design.
PROACTIVE HOUSING
Productivity encouraged housing and surroundings
The landscape around the house is designed based on Permaculture concept, in a productive way.
Productivity comes from the design itself. As it is designed based on Permaculture concept, it connects People to the Environment around them immediately. The landscape gives the direction of a lifestyle. This lifestyle is practised by the pioneers and community members.
Growing your own vegetables with Hugelbeds, having eggs from chicken coops, with bee keeping & your own honey, by design, having fruit & nut trees, fruit juices, marmalades, pickles, filtering & recycling grey & black water, providing biodiversity for the local wildlife....These are some examples of productivity by design.
The aim is to provide a unified approach to create a productive lifestyle in a Community Building way.
This surrounding areas(Productive Landscaping) around our homes include Zones 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 in Permaculture concept.
PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPING
As you might agree, a sustainable future requires connected, productive, self-sustainable communities. We need to build our living environments differently. Instead of compartmentalized, competitive and a profit oriented lifestyle, we have to create a Community encouraged, connected, collaborative and benefit oriented lifestyle.
Urban environments should be designed towards creating Sustainability, which has 3 legs; Ecological, Economic and Social. These 3 goals can be achieved with the Permaculture concept.
Each household is designed in trapezoid form and this allows to create a circle. This circle creates unity & community encouraged form. The design allows to create 6 - 8 - 10 or 12 Housing possibility. This is for creating a niche community.
Each Household private zone ends with a Food Forest. This area is shared area for the Community members. Together cared, together harvested & used.
In Permaculture, this Zones include 0 – 1 – 2 – 3.
Permaculture Village Module Design
Permaculture is an open and inclusive concept. It also embraces the innovative, self-sustainability encouraging technologies. Connecting the Modules to each other, endlessly, borderlessly, we can expand sustainability. We can create this kind of Sustainable Villages around the cities and connect them to inner city communities.
This web of productive connections and expanding sustainable communities will change the landscape towards diverse, forestry environments. Natural balance will be restored. Our diet will be re-directed towards more healthy, diverse food. Our health and immune system will be improved. Our Economy will be more localized. Small-Medium businesses will grow. Our personal talents will become our jobs.
The central area is open public place, reachable by public transport. This area includes, shops, organic food restaurants, cafeterias, theatre, workshop areas, community product producing areas and many more. The residents will work, participate & receive income from this area. Along with their own sustainable lifestyle & their own garden products, they will be financially sustainable as village, as a Community Managed Company. (Financial Sustainability, Local Businesses, Local fresh & organic food.)
This life style is the way to a different culture, a Permanently established and sustainable culture.
It is called Permaculture.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
CREATING A SUSTAINABLE URBAN AREA
“Permaculture is the next level of Human Consciousness”
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