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Im not gonna be naive and think that every single architect is perfect and not greedy enough to go ahead with this plan but here it is. People are weak. They dont really care about the environment or about the future of the earth because what people want today is everything fast and soon. A consumer lifestyle cannot be eplaced just as easy as that so why not educate them by taking a lead?
With the states of the world creating new ways of allowing pollution to invade the planet and governments creating conditions which are completely curruptible and easy to manipulate in order to build irresponsibly why not create a country within a country?
Lets say me as a architect buy a large plot of land. By large I mean about 1000 hectare land. A plot of land with little vegetation and a small stream of water and some natural geological features. Now I commence to prepare the land. I start introducing indegenous vegetation from a national and microclimatic level. Re-introduce species which would thrive and were or are common of the area. But not just a little. A lot. And also in a intelligent way. Then I start building services. I include a natural rain water dam and allow the raining season to come and fill that up. I include a small waste treatment plant to allow to cater for all the future structures to be built. I include a solid waste compacting facility and a landfill to make some fertilizer from the future organic waste that will be produced. Thinking ahead Ill already be making money by selling the fertillizer and sell the compacted plastic and metal to recyler companies for plastic and metal to blast steel furnaces as well as glass to glass factories. I personally worked with people who deal with these comapnies. So from our waste wed have a bit of money coming in. In alternative energies Id include a total of 50 windmills and 200 solar panels or more. I understand it is a lot of money to get them all once but I dont need them all at once. I can buy a few to cater for a certain number of population but as the population increases so does the alternative energy. Id buy energy batteries large enough to be hooked to a small mini transformer station and wed have our energy problem solved. A pipeline will be supplied to every plot of land where future homes will be built and that leads to a reservoir where downfall from rain will be collect straight from the roof of future homes and into the reservoir. This reservoir will be our clean water supply where it will be treated and then reticulated to all the homes. There will be 3 water towers on the highest locations of the estate and the water from the reservoir will be pumped up every week and then reticulated to the homes via natural gravity. There will be also a network by the local authority but thats only a alternative in case of dire need. Same applies for electricity.
Now once that is done I start dividing the plots and here is the main part of the idea. I f you give way too much freedom to people they start doing mistakes and the complete opposite for good. So rules would have to be implemented in order to avoid that.
1 You are not allowed to change any vegetation on your plot or the common areas of the estate.
2 Absolutely no littering.
3 You are allowed to build your own residence or have it built by another architect or by us in such a way where it will not affect the vegetation on your space and that it is built to minimize waste of energy. Also in such a way where the rainwater from the roof will be directly transported to the rainwater pipeline.
4 Any vehicles or machinery which seemingly or by order of appearance are emitting large amounts of co2 due to engine failure or any other reason are not allowed within the estate and a fine will be issued in the case of such.
5 Fishing in the lake can be done on season and catch and realease only.
6 Pay your contribution for the upkeep of the solar panels water treatment plants etc etc.
You see all these rules came out of my head now and I also understand taht this will cost ridiculous amounts of money but i assure you it can all be done. Also the market targeted at first may be for those who are economically at ease but the main target is for normal guys with little money but with time green apartments for bachelors and small familes can be built and with properly educating people they may enjoy and be used to living more ecologically and more in balance with the world around them. But the most important thing is to have a adminstration that will not look the other way and have people build whatever thing they think they can build or else. Please give me tips or comments on this idea. I came up with this after I watched 2 films last night. Home. And The Experiment. The idea that the human being can automatically change from being a civillized being to some thoughtless animal struck me and it made feel desperate as a student architect and a man.
Id also like to listen to ideas. Thanks guys.

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