Grouped cottages
To live becomes a luxury, reserved soon for
an elite. Consequently let us consider the idea of an alternative
according to the approach "simplicity-volunteer", that
to live poetic cottages, reduced with essence. Let us add the
concept of poetry, in order to avoid the drift excluding any
aesthetic concept.
Since a few years already, germ in me an idea not so utopian
that that, since it already exists, in fact with the "District
of the Hut" in Leuwen the New one in Belgium *. It appeared
besides there spontaneously under the initiative of students
estimating that the prices of the residences of student were
too high.
Of what does act it? Let us imagine the communes placing of the
communal grounds at the disposal as that occurs to Leuwen the
New one, via long beams or any other form of hiring. That would
allow the construction of small sets of cottages gathered in
paysagés districts and thus anticipativement to circumvent
the flowering of shantytowns.
It and of course that this idea requires a framing including/understanding
various coordinators, like a town planner, an architect, a welfare
officer and I pass from there. That supposes also thereafter
committees of districts, an internal minimum of organization,
a payment of an interior nature.
It would be a question in other words of creating grouped habitats
or écovillages, with the medical ones and infrastructure
communes. For some a new manner to perhaps consider the life,
made exchanges and of mutual aid. That supposes tolerance and
respect and is probably not conceived without a return to the
essential values. It is a manner of seeing its neighbors like
springboards and not of the obstacles. That makes it possible
to undertake with several what one would not have imagined to
only undertake.
In short, an idea that I invite you to dig.
But perhaps will be necessary it to await a wave of saturation
or an event of shock so that these initiatives develop.
Christian The Barn
Vévi Wéron 15 5100 Wépion Belgium
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