FIRM:
PI.KL
San Diego, CA

Team Members:
Kuo Pao Lian
Pavlina Ilieva

Commonwealth
A self-generative community in the urban re-development would eliminate the notion of over-consumption and rapid growth. Instead, a new system of relational components will evolve within the existing environment where every new urban component will be introduced by harnessing all resources and facilities available locally while providing additional support mechanisms back to the urban environment.
The emphasis falls on the ability to grow a community naturally and gradually, developing a home-grown socioeconomic sustainability by investing in the proper handling of the natural environment and technology and the full utilization of local social capital.
This holistic approach to our collective future promotes natural diversity, social adaptability and shared resources, revealing the true value of humanity’s COMONWEALTH , a vision of a community that

DOES NOT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT – restores and revives
RESPECTS HUMANS AND ALL OTHER SPECIES – nurtures life
GENERATES EQUALITY AND PROSPERITY – provides lasting and empowering connections among all.

Making “more with less” naturally reduces the impact of social and environmental degradation against increasing needs and depleting resources, but it doesn’t restore, adapt and reciprocate as it merely seeks to mitigate the consequences of a self-inflicted condition. We need to restore the abundance of resources and engage in a system that generates more than it takes away. We can be “on the grid” of a new urban fabric that effectively connects and distributes self-generated resources by adapting to existing conditions and seeking natural connections and interrelations among humans and between nature and society.