Welcome to the Nation's 1st Net Positive, Small Home Community for Currently Homeless
About Us
Think Global, Act Local
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
International.Villas long term vision is to be able to provide energy needs for local schools and hospitals in the municipality where each International.Villas community is located.
Each community will provide a 'whole new way of living', as described by one Harvard Civil Engineering professor of Net Zero/PassiveHaus.
Marginialized members
International.Villas long term vision is to be able to provide energy needs for local schools and hospitals in the municipality where each International.Villas community is located.
Each community will provide a 'whole new way of living', as described by one Harvard Civil Engineering professor of Net Zero/PassiveHaus.
Marginialized members of the local community from the currently homeless to teens aging out of foster care, refugees to trafficked survivors, each International.Villas focuses on fostering the community first.
Additional homes to be utilized for:
University Research & Development
Corporate Gatherings & Retreats
Civic Gatherings & Retreats
Private Gatherings
Hikers & Campers
It is the intention for
CvilleVillas.com
International.Villas & International.Construction
to provide for research and technological advancement in sustainable construction.
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
International.Villas designs and constructs both small homes and tiny homes, but our emphasis is on small homes.
We believe one should never compromise too many comforts and luxuries.
Although we try to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible in all of our designs, not everyone feels comfortable in a tiny home.
We design and tailor your unique home for your needs and desires.
Incorporating the Future
Small Homes & Tiny Homes
Incorporating the Future
Each International.Villas community will try to designate land within the community for future growth and development as new design elements and materials come onto the market.
We will be designing our homes and communities utilizing, but not limited to, the following systems:
geothermal with
underground cisterns
rainwater collecting
solar in
Each International.Villas community will try to designate land within the community for future growth and development as new design elements and materials come onto the market.
We will be designing our homes and communities utilizing, but not limited to, the following systems:
geothermal with
underground cisterns
rainwater collecting
solar installations
bee colony roofs
compost waste
mushroom insulation
jean insulataion
&
dozens of novel ideas!
The Team
Our team comprises a multitude of international independent contractors
and volunteers ranging in capacities from solar experts to environmental ecologists.
Each unique individual contributes their own area of expertise with the common thread of
wanting to make the world a better place for future generations.
Creator & Founder - Gwen Cassady
Humbly, her only A+ in graduate school, University of Virginia,
Professor Emeritus Paxton Marshall's Civil Engineering
EcoMOD course, 'Designing a Sustainable Future',
Gwen's passions include renewable energy and custom, delicate eco-friendly design.
She was a consultant for AHIP & LEAP and canvassed the 10th & Page neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia where she conducted over 50 home owner interviews coupled with conducting smoke pencil, blower door tests, and geothermal imaging to determine the most efficient solutions.
Admitted into the inaugural Master's International program in conjunction with the Peace Corps and the Curry School of Education, in addition to Gwen acting as a TA for Managing Sustainable Development in the McIntire School, she also took courses in Darden, the Environmental Sciences school with a NASA scientist, and she was the only non-major participant in the EcoMOD programs in both the Architecture and Engineering Schools.
Currently taking courses at Harvard towards a Masters in Global Development Practice, concentrating in Creating Sustainable Communities and Cities, the first International.Villas community will hopefully house the currently homeless in the Charlottesville, VA area.
Having lived, worked, or traveled to over 60 countries and all 7 continents, Gwen invests her time facilitating a wide array of ventures. However, International.Villas is Gwen's primary life goal and hopes to have International.Villas communities internationally by 2023.
Managing Love, Inc.
International.Construction is a ManagingLove.org subsidiary.
ManagingLove.org is currently fully funded by ManagingProjects.org.
It is our greatest hope to form community partnerships with HUD and the Department of Agriculture.
Our long term, strategic vision is to not only sell energy back to the municipality, but to provide for all energy needs of local school systems in each International.Villas community.
Our first International.Villas community will break ground in the Charlottesville area in 2022.
In alignment with ManagingLove.org's 2020 vision of
Peace, Prospertity, and Sustainability, we hope to be the
first net zero community in the state of Virginia.
It is our founder's hope to be the first female in the United States to be commissioned by the Department of Energy to design and construct the first net positive community comprised of small homes.
Other interests of ManagingLove.org include,
but are not limited to:
Fully Funded by ManagingProjects.org:
&
Other Ventures