Why Eco-Friendly Villages are Thought to Change the Future of Housing?

The number of landowners who want to build commune-style villages that have a low carbon

footprint and are self-sufficient has been continually increasing. To mention intentional community

which is defined as a planned residential community designed to have a high degree of teamwork

and social cohesion, it is being preferred by those who consider becoming a model on how to live

a life that impacts the planet less and protects themselves better from risks related to climate change.

These type of people are conscious of future disasters, and they consider finding new ways of

development instead of settling in a single-family home with people cloistered from each other living

separately in their own places.

In the recent years, projects that were designed to attend such issues have been sprouting like

mushrooms. These projects were built with food production facilities intended for raising fish and

chicken, and growing organic produce through advanced agricultural technologies such as vertical

farms and aquaponics as these require less land. Such settlements were also found to be able to

generate their own power through wind, biogas, and solar energy, and are able to manage their

wastewater with the utilisation of closed-loop system that captures waste and then turns them into

fertilizers and energy.

Some of the projects were inspired by foreign communities with the attempt of revolutionising the

way of living should people have to experience. For even landowners, developers, and the local

governments themselves are interested in bringing modifications to their own communities such as

Bhula Bhula international community. However, there are factors that need to be taken care of such

as changing the political culture to make it more sceptical and conservative in a way that there will be

sustainability in the investments. This means that conventional single-family developments are being

favoured and that can be through rethinking financing and zoning systems.

The existence of communities will depend on local governments if they are open to bold procedures

to sustainability in residential villages and if they welcome partnering with local universities of other

research institutions just to further study the model.

Like in places where climate is like that of the Netherlands, the prototype of that foreign land can be

easily replicated having features like of that huge glass envelopes that encase houses conserving

heat during winter, biomass that powers cooling and heating systems, and protected greenhouse

areas for gardens placed near homes. Such villages are usually built in suburban and rural areas

that have enough space for incorporate farming, conservation systems, adept at energy landscaping,

public transportation networks, and renewable energy systems.

More and more eco-villages have been brought from raw design to reality to ease the demands of

the increasing global population. Applied to it are the latest of technologies to resolve the dearth of

high-quality demonstration projects that need to be improved or studied regarding the move towards

residential housing sustainability. Retrofitting current homes can also be a solution to transforming

residential housing.

Hence, climate resiliency and sustainability are the main factors to be considered upon developing

plans for communities such as Bhula Bhula village community, and many others.