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Contents
The concept
Outcome
Develop a sustainable Living Building plan for the The Green Garage building to meet the community social and work needs. The plan would include:
- Community social and work requirements
- detailed sketches of the overall building and key elements (from the people's view)
- common area designs
- model of the building
Sustainability Goals
- Environmental Integrity
- Clean the water...that has been given for our care and use
- Zero waste
- Net zero-energy
- Return to the land and habitat
- Community Wellbeing
- Connecting to the "flow"...2nd Ave, alley
- Economic Energy and Justice
Scope
Includes
- Entrances / Pathways
- Window / door locations
- Light requirements
- Common area requirements
- Business area requirements
- Integration of Garden Club results
- Community requirements
- Both sections of the building
- Connectedness to neighborhood
Excludes
- Mechanical systems
- Energy / Lighting systems
Key Questions
- How can the building inspire the ideas and innovation that is needed?
- What are the historical commission restrictions on the building envelop?
Resources
- C. Alexander - A Pattern Language (required text) and A Timeless Way to Build
- Living Building Guidelines - from Cascadia
- Site Visits - Apple Store, Menlo Park (Greenfield Village),
- Woodbury & Assoc
- Resources for Sustainable Design Packard Foundation BNIM Arch
- Design inSite Materials and products
- An Approach from Woman in SF
Approach
- Natural Accountability for Place and Space
- Timeless Way to Build
- Learn about Living Buildings
- Cascadia Living Building Leader
- Living Building Challenge pdf
- User's Guide (to be published)
- Packard Matrix
- Resources for Sustainable Design Packard Foundation BNIM Arch
- Community Design using A Pattern Language
- Connecting to the Earth's Powerful Systems of Life
- Sun - Path
- Water - Flow
- Land / Relatives - Soil, Bio-region,
- Wind - Wind Rose - Building
- Use 25 Patterns to design a living building
- Site and Neighborhood
- Entrances and Pathways
- Workgroups
- Space
- Connecting to the Earth's Powerful Systems of Life
Assumptions
- The exterior will be restored close to the 1920 look
- green alley project will occur
- Roof has excess load capacity
Sessions
9-19-08
- We all agreed it would be helpful to read pp. 1-19 from 'A Timeless Way of Building'
- We agreed that Tom will pick 30 or so patterns to discuss, with more added by group as we read
- We walked around the building to assess how we felt about the current space:
- Front corner room:
- love light
- like openness
- can interact with others
- spiritual place
- you can see what's going on around us
- parking lot and well
- industrial
- unfriendly roof
- unwelcoming
- barriers
- dead
- smished next to adjacent building
- front of old building
- cold
- harsh
- fortress
- forlorn
- tired
- fearful
- squat
- alley
- abandoned
- barrier
- urban
- tired
- unloved
- lonely
- help me
- hidden history
- main room - alley door
- cold
- solid, firm floor
- like brick wall
- like stairway
- doorway ahead - pulls you in
- hard, cold floor
- looks messy
- dirty
- out front door
- barrier
- unbalanced
- positive - light
- left wall a problem
- main room - front cave
- cave
- dreary
- road noise
- under mezzanine
- quieter
- peaceful
- dark
- poles - asset
- special space
- brick wall
- windows
- mezzanine
- love creaky floor
- potential view
- love trusses
- more light needed
- show movies on brick
- box you come out of is cute
- quiet
- feels like you're on a stage
- smells nice
- warmer feel
- quaint stairs
- wash room - janitor
- creepy
- echo
- coal
- cellar feel
- Front corner room: