Domes are a true example of “doing more with less.” A dome encloses the largest interior space volume with the least surface area, thus saving on materials and cost. Since a dome is free-standing, air and energy circulate without obstruction, enabling natural heating and cooling that can be augmented by traditional HVAC systems
“…the American Institute of Architects called it “the strongest, lightest and most efficient means of enclosing space yet known ...
Our approach is to establish full integration of our garden-to-table, massage therapies, healthy food production, and preparation into our hospitality/customer service programs through our Pop-up events training.
Training in this area will assist with the overall efficiency of participates before, during and post event. One of our goals is to facilitate a much improved locally trained workforce in hospitality/customer service.
Our program will also go beyond the standard culinary arts, and other food service-related skill sets by integrating our solar and renewable energy sectors into onsite practical application use of solar ovens/cooking within our hospitality customer service training sessions.
Sustainable Agriculture, and Urban/Vertical Garden Training and Onsite Garden-to-Table Initiatives
Urban Gardening – Brief demonstrations can teach wellness, nutrition by incorporating access to healthy herbs and vegetables by growing food in vertical gardening systems in an urban environment on porches, patios, apartment balconies, backyards, rooftops, etc.
Food Nutrition and Preparation – Our approach is to introduce innovative ways to grow crops through research and training through programs that will offer skills development workshops on entrepreneurship, urban food production, master gardening, food preparation, healthy eating habits, obesity and diabetes prevention, exercise, food safety and sanitation certification.
Business and Commercial Incubator Kitchens – Our collaborative partnerships enable us to include community-specific, commercial kitchens that will also link support for in-community urban food-production, and food processing to provide residents and businesses with effective food demonstrations, nutritional education, food service handling, and preparation and food service certifications.
Our approach is to establish full integration of our garden-to-table, CAM therapies, healthy food production, and preparation programs. These programs will also go beyond the standard culinary arts, and other food service-related skill sets by integrating our solar and renewable energy sectors into onsite practical application of solar ovens/cooking within our training sessions.
Our proposed One Block International Marketplace intends to showcase the existing community gardening to facilitate hands-on demonstrations and education for early childhood and seniors of the designated communities, and we initiate this process through our Pop-up in-community training sessions.
Our initial Proof of Concept focus is to provide community-specific training, seminars, workshops, Boot Camp/Immersion training sessions. We look to lay the initial groundwork for our development of a new community-specifc Small and Micro-business Virtual Help Desk.
We are intent on ensuring the immediate cross-training with our U.S-based community-based training efforts. Critical to our training is to train and demonstrate the ongoing efficient use of our new onsite gardens, healthy food cooking, massage therapy and indoor/outdoor health and wellness environments for business, community, local and international use/exchange, emergency preparedness, etc.
Within our Pop-up events, we incorporate ongoing emergency preparedness information, presentations. and onsite technology display themes. It will also serve to augment First Responders and emergency relief worker’s satellite resources during natural, man-made disasters, or climate change events.
Brief In-community demonstrations can teach wellness, nutrition by incorporating access to healthy herbs and vegetables by growing food in vertical gardening systems in an urban environment on porches, patios, apartment balconies, backyards, rooftops, etc.
We use technology provided by handheld devices. These devices are prevalent in the community and provide innovative ways we can review, evaluate, and purchase organic-natural food products, prepare our immediate community for emergency preparedness, and transfer the latest sustainable technologies to be used for community development, well-being, and safety.
This would also enable our ongoing, in-community training that provide real-time, onsite, public information, outreach and educational demonstrations in a learning, fun and interactive environment for the designated area.
Our approach is to help address the chaos, mental disorganization, and despair that follows public emergencies and disasters. Our Pop-up events use Geodesic Domes to provide indoor/outdoor environmentally-friendly and healthy environments /spaces that enble immersion sessions to ensure that we set communities on a mental and emotional path to facilitate building resiliency in the community.
These sessions promote adopting the mindset to absorb the impact of these events before and after they occur. It will also set the community on a trajectory to provide for the sustainability of their community without the significant reliance on forces outside their control.
Through creative management of our collaborative partnerships participation, we provide the plan, design and implement outdoor/indoor public environments for emotional, mental, and individual introspection required to enable the absorption of the impact in real time. And that everyone in the immediate community can participate.
This approach is applicable to suburban, rural, and non-urban at-risk areas. However, since the most deaths from any natural disaster are from flooding, and just under 50% of the world's population live in coastal regions, we elected to apply this approach, initially, in Coastal Communities.
This will also afford the opportunity to design elevated sustainable urban spaces by water integrating natural and engineered water elements like rain gardens, floating structures, and bioswales to manage stormwater, cool cities, enhance biodiversity, and create public green areas, using techniques like water-sensitive design (WSUD), green infrastructure, and innovative floating architecture for climate resilience, improving both environment, quality of life, disaster survivability.
Our approach is to establish full integration of our garden-to-table, massage therapies, healthy food production and preparation into our hospitality/customer service programs. One of our goals is to facilitate a much improved locally trained workforce in hospitality/customer service. Our program will also go beyond the standard culinary arts, and other food service-related skill-sets by integrating our solar and renewable energy sectors into onsite practical application use of solar ovens/cooking within our hospitality customer service training sessions.
In addition to providing a robust local healthy food source infrastructure, we integrate our “Beyond Bricks and Mortar” initiatives into our planning and design of our Pop-ups and SUV developments.
We do this to further our objective to strengthen local community-specific corporate, governmental, general community, and quasi-governmental partners with increased local capacity, and a support infrastructure to promote the building of resiliency within the ...
Our Studio No 3 (One Block International Marketplace - OBIM) development approach included the restoration of the majority of small and micro-business retail spaces within a one block designated area, we intend to implement our disaster resistance design & construction initiatives. It will include the immediate practical application, and the basic education/training of easy-to-apply disaster resistance, design/construction techniques.
Our training of construction technicians will specifically inform tradesmen in good practice on how to make an existing poorly built building stronger and hazard resistant, rather than focusing on new construction. Further, it addresses the limited understanding about what can be done to improve seismic resistance of existing buildings, while also including hurricane resistance characteristics.
We have increasingly culturally diverse coastal communities that bring new and untapped opportunities for cultural exchange, enabling robust ongoing relationships between small and micro-businesses and the coastal communities they serve. And go beyond the primary transactional relationship level.
Our cultural exchange partners provide global insight in healthy food grown in various regions around the world, easy-to-apply sustainable techniques, music and performing arts, etc. all to educate and inform our real-time, community-specific advanced research, planning and training.
The studios serve as an ongoing technical assistance support structure to provide community-based, nonprofit, and faith-based, local and international governmental entities with the advanced research, planning, design, engineering, and construction expertise required for execution of the SUV concept with a scalable approach.
We are mindful that this concept is a new and innovative approach is partly brought on by the realization of the COVID- 19 pandemic, and the increasing occurrence of other global natural and man-made disasters. We look to establish a re-imagination of how we plan, design, prepare, use and sustain our coastal communities in urban and rural areas on a scalable basis.
The goal is to conduct long-term advanced research, planning, design and training, and collaborations to establish a foundation of cultural competence. This will enhance small and micro-businesses, and entrepreneurial skills training programs and promote the development of SUVs. These efforts will involve partnerships with local businesses, educational institutions, government, and other entities to drive community-specific sustainable economic development and business initiatives in areas of shared interest.
We'd love to hear from you! If you have any questions or want to learn more about our Coastal Communities Initiative.