The Ecological Design of Co-housing Power Point

Check out this early Power Point Pre­sen­ta­tion of my Mas­ter of Design Pro­posal from my research design class ’06 with Dr. Steven A. Moore. 

The Eco­log­i­cal Design of Co-Housing_2  The link above should down­load a .pdf. there were some con­ver­sion prob­lems but most of the text is ledg­i­ble and where it should be on the page.

• Pur­pose of Research: The aim of this design study is to pro­pose a spe­cific case of co-housing that expands the term to mean coop­er­a­tive dwellings of human and non-human res­i­dents, cre­at­ing a greater eco­log­i­cal place.This design of co-housing should appro­pri­ated to the site as to min­i­mize envi­ron­men­tal dam­age and to enhance what char­ac­ter­is­tics, qual­i­ties and species/beings are present and what could be present (i.e. intro­duc­ing native spe­icies, cre­at­ing archi­tec­ture that improves the qual­ity of life of future residents).
  • + I see a need to inte­grate the human envi­ron­ment and nature in development.
  • + Far too often nature is seen as stop­ping devel­op­ment, how can this be changed?
  • + Con­cepts of hous­ing like Co-housing are more sus­tain­able and can give res­i­dents more con­trol in their built envi­ron­ment.
     
     

• Appreciate what we have in terms of “everyday nature”

• Create more sustainable housing, reflecting and embracing nature can bring inspiration and more livelihood.

• Benefits of intertwining nature and human development can be better understood.

• Take ecological design of housing farther than LEED (energy efficiency)

• Expanding sustainability past the humancondition will create a more sustainable condition

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