Natural Building

Even though I have a vague idea about what natural building deals with, this reading(I mean the reading which we got) helped know more about natural building. For instance, how natural materials has been defined.

I found natural laws very interesting and true. In the lessons from conserver culture, Understanding that straight lines, flat surfaces and right angles are ecologically expensive was something I hadn’t given much thought to. The simple example of round wood losing the strength of its inherent geometry explains this point very well.

Natural buildings are eco-friendly but very few. It is strange how even after knowing the drawbacks of modern buildings we still have majority of them. There is an adverse impact on nature and the health of people associated with modern buildings and it is much more expensive too. I would love to stay in a natural building but I stay in a modern building.

 In Kenya, corrugated steel roofing was a result of “not wanting to look as if they were backward” and the people there faced a lot of problems but considered those problems the “price of progress”. What kind of progress?

The power in our ideas and collective action is capable of influencing the way our society thinks, talks, and acts regarding building and resource use.