A Change is going to come!

Prefabricated methods of the production of sustainable housing systems, cannot only be used to produce a single dwelling unit.

If you build a single house for a man and his family, in most parts of West Africa,  It does not necessarily help him. You are in fact doing him a questionable favor. In most parts of this region if you leave the man and his family on his own you have made him a ‘target’ for itinerant armed marauders who will, relieve the subject of his meager valuables and probably ravish his wife! He will be lucky to escape with his life. [Depending on the mood of his assailants]

For a house to make sense in the tropical third world, [the chosen regional context] it has to be a subset of a group. It has to exist within a community of dwellings for various reasons, ranging from security [as touched upon above] to access to education, medical facilities community facilities, and the attainment of a basic reasonable civilized living standard. This is a portion of life that is taken for granted in the developed world. However vast swathes of West Africa are tightly held in the grip of near hunger, poverty, and a lack of hope. Government efforts towards the eradication of disease and poverty have not begun to scratch the surface of the problems. They can, therefore, sustainability is unlikely to be achieved from the top down, this research will enable the new approach of .... from the bottom, upwards.