Greenhouse Village

Look at this! (download pdf)

Some Dutch people have already figured the cluster out. But it is for 200 houses.

water windmill!!

look at this! how cool is that??

everything bad brings something good

Hej allihopa/everybody,

I am still in chock that our school almost burned down last week, and happy that no one was hurt. and I really think something good can come out of this. It was amazing to see so many students and teachers gathered on thursday and I am sure that we can find ways to help each other and come out of this even stonger!

Just look at the role fire has in ecology, in this wiki article.


Hope you all had a good weekend and that our stuff in ritsalen are okey and that they don't smell too bad.

Too bad this would happen with the ants in the header...

Plots

(click to see the large image)

Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25%

www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/280491/change_farming_to_cut_co2_emissions_by_25_per_cent.html

PASSIVEhouseconstructioninGREECE

Ciudad Abierta

Hi again! This is another cluster example even more interesting cause it's developed, design and built by a team composed mainly by professors and students of the architecture school of Valparaiso, in Chile. The main idea is to create a Ciudad Abierta (open city) that stimulate the social relationships between the people who wants to experience this place and where the experience of every component of the group is shared with all the others in order to improve both the built space that the relationships themselves.






                                                                                   AMEREIDA corporation (some theory about the                
                                                                                   open city)

Leumann's Village

Hi everybody! This is an example of a cluster community that was developed in Turin around 1900 by the owner of a big factory (mr Leumann) that decided that to improve the production was important that the workers had very good life conditions. So he built a small self-suficient "village inside the city" with lot of function in it in a very small scale (school, city hall, church, ecc.). I thaught that could be a good reference!

CHEESE

SunPower

There is a big boring parking south east of the plot....

Fixed-Tilt Solar Canopy

Able to withstand winter snow load and control water runoff

• No moving parts
• Shading and protection for vehicles
• Low balance of system cost
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Some reading...

Here's a link, you can download the book for free as well.

ARCOSANTI - PAOLO SOLERI

'In 1970, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona, 70 miles north of metropolitan Phoenix. When complete, Arcosanti will house 5000 people, demonstrating ways to improve urban conditions and lessen our destructive impact on the earth. (···) Arcosanti is designed according to the concept of arcology(architecture + ecology), developed by Italian architect Paolo Soleri. In an arcology, the built and the living interact as organs would in a highly evolved being. This means many systems work together, with efficient circulation of people and resources, multi-use buildings, and solar orientation for lighting, heating and cooling....'

Ekosystem som modell för ekologiskt lantbruk

REading tips (swedish) HERE

Model

Hey,

about the 1:100 model; check your e-mails for the tasklist. It's really no big deal if everybody does a little bit, ant-style.

Please pick a task, especially if you aren't gonna be around on monday. First come first serve, here's a doodle

Best

Carl

4, 5, 6..