The house, the body, the planet.
New energy-efficient homes built using healthy natural materials with the most advanced technology available will save energy and reduce carbon. Modernizing existing homes is our first priority. Optimizing all existing buildings is essential.
The home is complete when all five elements are equally present. The WholEarth home is inspired by nature.
The home is designed and built to the highest level of safe, clean technology. Water will be collected and used to the highest benefit of living things that contribute to everyone’s health and wellbeing. Food comes from the garden to the kitchen as part of the WholEarth Home. Energy is provided by clean solar power and wind and stored for use as needed.
Meet our Housing authority,
Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure have published a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, “lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely.” The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation fo the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. This book is the master plan for the University of Oregon, and is now being implemented at that university; but it shows at the same time how any community the size of a university or small town might go about designing its own future environment-with all members of the community participating personally. It is a concrete example at the Center’s theories in practice, showing in simple detail, with numerous illustrations, how to implement six guiding principles: organic order, participation, piecemeal growth, patterns, diagnosis, and coordination.
Meet lead designer for the project.
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Paolo Solari
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