Evolutionary design of our built structures

Crafting the infrastructures for a 'super-organism' requires that we intentionally design and build super- collaborative arrangements that support ALL the living occupants along the entire spectrum of the food chain, from the micro-flora in the soil to the human administrators and cultivators of the community.

Building structures that integrate the inside climate controlled spaces with the outside natural environment in order to meet the needs of the humans, animals, plants, and soil. Designing to include solutions for power production/storage, onsite waste management, and water collection/storage while creating intimacy gradients, both commercial and residential spaces, as well as private, public, and semi-public domains.

Perhaps we would all be wise to embrace our inner 'Hobbit'...

By thinking holistically in the long-term, we can recognize that outputs from one system can become inputs for another and it becomes possible to create a nearly self-sufficient homestead cluster of residences and commercial operations. Eliminating the dependency on outside systems as the internal systems grow and evolve over time and begin to produce an excess of resources that can be shared with the local community. Providing not only food, water, shelter, and power but also skilled workers that can offer their services to the community at large.

“Designing our buildings to only account for single family shelters alone does not provide for the needs for entire community. And only addressing the need for shelter doesn't solve the ongoing needs for food, water, fuel, power, and currency.”

The upfront costs for building the systems to provide for all of life's essential needs are much greater, but the operating expenses are much less and given time to grow the surplus of resources will provide a much greater return on the initial investment of capital. The concepts form #BauBiologie that categorize the concerns into 'Good Materials', 'Interior Air Quality', and 'Electromagnetic Field' mitigation along with the #Permaculture principles of "taking care of the people, taking care of the land, and returning all surplus to the land and the people", ALL combine to guide the designing and construction of #LivingBuildings' to create a true #LivingCommunity.

Using #PatternLanguageDesign strategies to communicate the design solutions to the occupants, the financiers, and the builders allows for both clarity and flexibility. By organizing the design vocabulary into a library of solutions we can model a path towards #decentralized independent clusters of #IntentionalCommunity that each provide for their own needs while creating a surplus to share with the #community at large.

#Biomimicry on a grand scale

We must learn to recognize that all systems should serve multiple functions, stacking solutions to embed the maximum value into the minimum amount of space, which requires designing on a broader scale than historically has been done in real estate development. The return on the investment is more than simple monetary profit, it is greater abundance and diversity of life with more resilience and adaptability than can occur when only measuring success by the financial bottom line. It requires thinking like a living being with needs for a healthy physical and social environment. Providing a surplus of value manifesting in multiple forms, not only the profits that non-living corporations worship as their religion that justify attaining it by any means at any cost.

Humans are social creatures, designing our family #Cohousing #Coworking residential/commercial compounds in order to cultivate those needs has not been done. This is because the financing of single family homes has been done by corporate Bankers and profit seeking building companies that value monetary returns above all else.

Building holistic infrastructures

Designing pattern language systems that integrate between one another allows for a synergistic effect when properly combined.

• Ranging from aquaponics gardens that have the fish fertilize the gardens and the plants that clean and filter the water for the fish.

• To grey-water subsurface wetland systems that have the household sinks water the kitchen greenhouse and the bathroom gardens.

• And the methane generators that turn the black-water liquid waste into cooking and heating fuels,

• Or the black soldier flies that turn humanure into fertilizer for the orchard and protein for the fish and the chickens.

• As well as, the vermiculture systems that turn kitchen scraps into worms and compost to feed the gardens

• And the chickens, and the chickens, pigs, and rabbits that also turn food waste into methane, food for the humans

None of these systems, that each require built infrastructures, are normally accounted for in traditional mortgages provided by the legacy banking systems. And this is a large part of why they are rarely integrated into mainstream building designs, especially when the regulatory environment rarely "permits" these systems to be built. By providing 'alternative' financing arrangements the limitations created by the Bankers and by using private membership associations granting the membership use of land trusts, we can bypass these hindrances to building sustainable homestead communities that are alive and grow over time to create even more life and abundance, bringing freedom and independence to all the occupants of the land.