People and Lifestyle

The self sufficient community which we designed will be focused in 9 factors which are: Transportation, Education, Healthcare, Shelter, Community, Environment, Waste Disposal, Production, and Energy. We found that these 9 factors are the main issue which will make a community self sufficient. We make the 9 factors integrates with the pattern that we already made before and produce this diagram.

As the pattern before, we will have the community in the centre of the area and other district surrounding it. All of the place will be connected through a public infrastructure system. Furthermore, we discuss these 9 factors further which will shape the lifestyle of the community. And the result are:

Production

Food production is a vital resource for the needs of communal areas; therefore each community hub will be responsible for their own. The distribution of food among the communities allows each community hub to become responsible for the growing and management of particular foods. For e.g. one community may grow mint for their type of herb whilst the other community may not but grows and produces coriander instead etc.  This is determined by the climatic condition of each individual community. In addition, this will help promote the “sharing concept” as well as minimising waste.  Foods will be distributed among the communities using the transport system without the need of trucks which pollute our environment.  There are also architectural possibilities relating to farming which will enhance production.

Power

A wind and solar turbine device integrated into one system will be used as a method to produce unlimited energy without consuming any resources. It consists of eight wings that spin to produce wind making energy and photovoltaic modules that can store solar power during the daytime. The device is made of lightweight aluminium in a spherical-like form without the need to directly face the suns position. The unique device is capable to be positioned almost anywhere such as in an urban streetscape.  Our future community is envisioned to use power devices like these and focuses on only using renewable energy systems. This device is implemented into the urban streetscape and people within the community go about everyday activities and tasks without this having negative impacts.

Education

 Since sustainability becomes an important issue in the future, scientist and software developer try to re-create a new way in studying it. Furthermore, they realized that study was not only about reading and understanding the text books but also implementing it in the real life. Moreover, scientists discover that by implementing senses to the knowledge will effectively influence people in understanding knowledge. Therefore, they invent the capsule library. Through this gadget, people not only will learn but also experience the knowledge by themselves. Furthermore, this machine involves the user as one character of the story. Furthermore, software developer will creatively convert the knowledge from the book to the “virtual reality” knowledge which will involve the user as one of the certain character of the knowledge. By working together, scientists and software developers can redefine a new system of study.

Waste Management

Consuming less is the most fundamental step in moving towards a more sustainable society.  Research studies have shown that although recycling is an effective way to manage waste materials, minimising the creation of waste is the most sustainable option. Furthermore, studies shows that it is more time and cost effective to deal with the causes of waste once it has already been produced. Therefore each community will focus in the practice of waste minimisation by reducing the amount of waste we create in the first place and not using a material eg: no more packaging, using less material e.g. bulk buying, or using less disposable materials e.g. using washable re-usable nappies and re-usable shopping bags/packaging.  This strategy aims to strengthen waste minimisation. The idea is to promote the utilisation of reusable packaging and to avoid the use of product packaging.  This waste management technique is so ingrained into people’s lifestyles in the future, that it becomes a custom and is not noticed as an inconvenience.

Transport

People in our “United World” Scenario, live in a world where there are no forms of private transportation (cars) and therefore need to rely on a sophisticated and fully integrated public transport system.  This system is fully automated allowing for a high level access and accessibility.  As this is the only major form of transportation in the community, there is a huge reduction in congestion and pollution with is evident in today’s society.  It is envisaged that the transportation system works on a rail style network.

Community

The central community hub is a key and crucial element to the realisation of a Woodford style community, and therefore our “United World” scenario.  The community hub brings together all the elements of the individual communities together and forms the social interaction point.  This is based on the Woodford Folk Festival (WFF) which has been held on the Woodford site.  The WFF promotes the concept of idea sharing and further development of crucial world and environmental issues and this is the foundation of the community centre and plan.  The community hub will act as an aid for interaction, discussion and development and people’s lifestyles will become one that embraces these notions.  The question is always being asked, HOW CAN WE DO THIS BETTER?

Healthcare

Healthcare in the “United World” will be highly based on new technological advancements.  Each individual community will have the technology and resources for basic medical care, with some of the communities specialising in specialist form of healthcare and medicine.  Healthcare may take on a different notion then in today’s society, for example cures will have been found for some medical conditions and the research and development could be more focused on maintaining health and the integration of procedures and medication that may seem extraordinary today, into everyday life.

Environment

Environmental issues and the way in which people interact with it will not have the same stigma attached to it, as seen in today’s society.  Environmental features are not just added to objects and buildings but incorporated in them from the start; it is a way of life.  The environment both natural and built is respected by the people and not only allows great functional processes but also is aesthetically pleasing and usable.  The environment is an important aspect of the future scenario, as this supports our way of life.  There is a careful and well planed balance of natural and built.

Shelter

People who don't have shelter are houseless - not homeless! Homelessness has nothing to do with a lack of shelter. Define Homeless: 'An inadequate experience of connectedness with family and or community,' (Dominic Mapstone). Homelessness is about a lack of connectedness. Belonging somewhere is about belonging with other people. Like belonging to a family or local community.

The largest social demographic in first world countries that experiences homelessness are actually elderly people who are houseful. Quite often their spouse has died and their children live at a distance. They feel the same loneliness and abandonment as the person living on the street. Therefore, to achieve good living condition we should live in the community who have a strong sense of community and sharing, in this case architecture solution can be a good possibility to help improve the sense of community and sharing.