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I have learned that the geography of a location can highly influence the possibilities of
sustainable housing. For example, the house in Africa that is on stilts in order to catch better air
flow, due to the geography of the land, in order to use the air as natural air conditioning. I have
realized that geography and sustainability often go hand in hand. As long as you take the
geography of the land in consideration, sustainability can be improved. As seen in the houses I
observed some of them were situated in certain ways in order to have better access to the sun,
others made buildings that cascade down in order for each room to have an equal chance of
being open to the sun, which decreases energy consumption. This activity made me realize that
as long as you work with your surroundings sustainable housing is really not that hard to
achieve. Simply opening your curtains instead of turning on your lights during the day makes a
huge amount of difference, utilizing the resources that come naturally from the earth, rather than
mechanically producing things that do the exact same things is a much better alternative. In
conclusion, this lesson showed me that sustainable housing doesn’t necessarily mean installing
more technology, like solar panels, it means using, and respecting what the earth already
produces for us through natural processes.