Urban Permaculture for Communities: Re-patterning the Grid
Visionary and eco-architect Mark Lakeman is founder of City Repair, Communitecture Architects, and the Planet Repair Institute. Mark goes against the traditional architecture teachings that humanity and nature are separate. Instead he brings these two concepts together, expressing them in beautiful artform. Modeling the plazas of Mexico and South America, Mark is teaching people the foundations of community by showing them the value of building open spaces to sit and gather, gardens, and places to read and drink tea. The end result is creative and beautiful.
Unlike modern architecture designed with a T-square and triangle, Mark designs in relation to the natural landscapes and natural curves and spaces in the community. He also designs according to the wants and needs of the people in the community.
One unique example in this video of designing for the specific wants and needs of the community is the first solar cat palace featuring a built in aquarium for the cats to paw and look at through the glass, passive solar allowing the sun to shine deep inside providing warmth during the colder months, and a solar skylight. End result: the cats and community love it!
Urban Permaculture utilizes the following building concepts:
● Designs according to the natural landscapes of the neighborhood
● Designed with open spaces to gather, sit, read and socialize
● Designed for the wants and needs of the community
● Designed with gardens and art expressing the beauty of the community
● Designed to bring people together rather than to separate and seclude
Urban Permaculture and eco architecture is taking us back in time where communities shared and built together. Back to when neighbors knew each other, helped each other out, and could trust that their children were safe. Mark Lakeman’s city repairing and eco architecture designs are what modern society neighborhoods have been missing for far too long and the results of his work are tearing down the walls of isolationism and bringing people together.
Thank you Mark Lakeman for all you are contributing!! Great video!
Hi Mark…Love your work…would love to share with you…I design and build tent structures that morph like stem cells into a whole variety of permanent dwellings that resemble crystals, bubbles, honeycombs, and flowers…they vary in size from one hundred to five thousand square feet with every single side of every kind and size of structure able to dock with all the tothers…creates fractal villages that look like your aerial view of the dogon village…off to Auroville India to help in the rebuilding taking place after a hurricane devastated the city a few weeks ago…planning to establish a retirement community in Auroville and later in the USA…using green technologies to obsolete the need of money for the retireeing baby boomers….would love to collaborate…seeking funding for taking this design strategy to Haiti where there are still a million living in tent refugee camps…you can also check out some of my earlier tent work at crystalpavilions.blogspot.com or my clothing at cameleonclothes.com …our future dwellings will appear and function like organisms on a much larger cosmic scale…keep up the good work….namaste