Housing as a Community Business.

Beyond that it can also build a “COMMUNITY INDUSTRY” even at the Village Level thus creating a “Self-Help Poverty Alleviation” industry.

The FRAME is designed to modern , state of the art earthquake resistance knowledge, as it is effectively a “SHOCK ABSORBER FRAME”. Not many people know that this is actually ancient knowledge in communities as that is how they built temples in China or in Japan for example, where the FRAME MOVES in an earthquake.

The Earthquake RESISTANCE energy is using the same principles as the “TAI CHI” martial art, “BE IN HARMONY WITH THE FORCE” and follow it through to save lives.

The system can be used either as a totality or as a component. It can be mixed with other building systems.

At present, a one-to-one scale mock up has already been built as a Two Storey construction with a Three Storey version currently being manufactured.

This is not only a building system for LOW COST HOUSES but it can also be for any level of houses.

The texture of the walls is handmade (by the women or the men) and is adaptable. The “sandwich” panels could also be pre fabricated in factories.

It is not only a building system proposal that is READY and PREPARED for any new disaster that may occur but, as we have said before, it is also an ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM to PUBLIC HOUSING SHORTAGES in general.

But the greatest side effect is that the COMMUNITY can also share in the benefits of the industry. In co-operation with forward thinking, environmentally aware lenders a MICRO HOUSING FINANCE LOAN SYSTEM , could be established enabling the poor to enter the “market” in an affordable manner.