“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller, Architect
3 people living on 1 acre, growing their own food & connected to the world =Freedom
✍🏿 #GoRural #Consult
Even Singapore begun with deliberate concepts in 1971
In Geylang Serai, Lee re-drew the road system to turn one large ghetto into 9 small pockets.
The only reason slums continue to exist is because it takes people to create one.
Can they be prevented? Yes. Plan against them.
In summary.
1. Friendship 2. Planning 3. Sacrifice & Savings/Loan 4. Phased Construction 5. Living & Revenues. 6. Multiply and Expand to New Locations. 7. Freedom.
Instead of building one large McMansion in Nairobi, #GoRural
2/10 🏠 1 acre would be for the house, farm buildings, a kitchen garden, and an orchard. We could yield various vegetables, fruits, and some honey 🍯 from this plot.
Jon Jendai has a very interesting experiment on Maximizing the Utility of Small Farms 🥕🥦🍆🥗… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3/10 🌱 1.5 acres would be pasture for grazing cows 🐄, sheep 🐑, geese 🦆, and chickens 🐔.
Milk, eggs, wool, and occasional meat would be the yield from this plot.
"This house tries to take charge of these questions, not as an absolute answer, but as a housing exercise that is willing to face the various and constant frictions between spaces, inhabitants and objects."