In the article “This Detroit House Is Being
Turned Into A Living Model Of Cost-Saving Sustainable Design” by Peters (2016)
narrates about the Motown Movement, which has helped people of Detroit especially,
to modify their houses and cut cost and consumption of energy. The article
portrays the endeavor of three architecture graduate friends of Netherlands,
who aim to demonstrate the practical implications of their learned theory in a
unique way. They had gone to Detroit after their graduation and bought a shabby
house to retrofit it into a low-cost tenable model. As they planned to do it,
they invested their time to search for an affordable way of adapting the older
stuff to serve the purpose. Everything which they have come up with is DIY and
pocket-friendly. In addition, They are interacting with the local organizations
to float the idea in the rest of the community. Simple methods propounded by
them will make the idea adaptive for all different climate zones as well. Moreover,
the three students are working with their university to carve out a master’s
program to provide people with all the necessary and useful knowledge for
turning their home into a sustainable model.
I believe that there is a lot what people can
learn by joining hands to explore beneficial ways of living. By adopting the
low cost, sustainable ideas brought in by technical people. They can make their
life easier by cutting down their expenses in the time of low city revenue.
Fox business article (2014) ‘How Detroit went bankrupt, how it got out and where the city goes from here’ retrieved from (http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/11/07/qa-how-detroit-went-bankrupt-how-it-got-out-and-where-city-goes-from-here.html) mentioned about Detroit had filed for bankruptcy on July 18 2013. This shows that the city is running out of money and this problem has been building for decades and has reached a point where immediate action is necessary to keep the city running. Therefore, many voluntary organizations had also come up with initiatives to help Detroit such as ‘The Detroit Future City’,retrieved from (http://detroitfuturecity.com/initiatives/) implementing works with a wide range of partners to cultivate affordable retroffing Strategic framework.
Therefore, in such situation, a thriving and
revolutionary thought of three individuals must be appreciated. I personally
think that the knowledge we gain should not be restricted to theory. It must be
practical like these graduates are inculcating the theory into skills. We need
to practically implement the skills to make ours and others’ lives, easy and
advantageous.
People literally have no idea what they are
capable of doing in unity; even the most congested and crowded cities can
breathe by employing such stupendous DIY hacks. Unity with the
inter-territorial brains and technology is a key to numerous benefits regarding,
making the living styles innovative, creative and cheap.
In the same manner, Bartollaci(2014) in ‘10
Innovative Affordable Housing Designs For Sustainable Living’, retrieved from (http://architizer.com:
http://architizer.com/blog/affordable-housing/) guides the best insulation methods through which the common people
can get useful information to make their homes, sustainable and cut down their
monthly bills.
Though the idea of Dutch boys is revolutionary
and cost friendly for the lower revenue city, but hurdles will come in their
way. Whereas, their spirit shows that they will overcome all the stumbling
blocks on the way.
To encapsulate, we can say that if people
realize and understand the immense positive outcomes of these revolutionary low-cost
ways, they definitely will join hands to learn and get these modifications done
to their houses, as a bankrupt city needs such money-friendly ideas to revive
their financial strength back.
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References
Peters,
A. (2016, July 07). fastcoexist. Retrieved from www.fastcoexist.com/:
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3061563/world-changing-ideas/this-detroit-house-is-being-turned-into-a-living-model-of-cost-saving-s
Bartollaci,
J. (2014, January 21). Architizer. Retrieved from http://architizer.com:
http://architizer.com/blog/affordable-housing/
detroitfuturecity.com/. (n.d.). Retrieved
from detroitfuturecity: http://detroitfuturecity.com/initiatives/
foxbusiness. (2014, November 07). Retrieved
from http://www.foxbusiness.com/:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/11/07/qa-how-detroit-went-bankrupt-how-it-got-out-and-where-city-goes-from-here.html
