Living Building Design Studio

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This documents the process and outcomes of a community of people working to grow the Green Garage into a living building.

Our work is documented on these pages.

Sustainable elements

• Alexander Community Design
• Site - GG Garden Club
• GG Zero Energy Design Studio
  • Earth Tubes*
  • Energy Modeling
  • Human Comfort Zone
• Materials
  • Building Materials Reuse - On Site
• Water - Spirit
• Healthy Environment
• Special Projects

(* ready for draft review / ** ready for final review / *** final edit completed)

Archives

• Fall 2008 - Design Studio sessions
• Winter 2009 - Design Studio Sessions

google docs

• Green Garage Sustainability Requirements

Work Guides

• Creating a One Earth Pattern in the Wiki
  • One Earth Pattern style guide
  • One Earth Pattern template
  • One Earth Pattern page development process From notes taken by Peggy - Step-by-step process for developing a 'pattern' page
  • General Wiki help
    • Green Garage: Help: Contents
    • Wikitext ... great examples of wiki editing
    • Complete Wiki Editors Guide
    • Adding an image...see Flickr section on Extension_Test_Page
    • Adding a video ... see YouTube section of Extension_Test_Page...click on edit to see code
• Adding a sustainable requirement to google docs database spreadsheet
  • Form
  • Adding links
• Creating a CAD layer
  • Obtain templates
  • create layer
  • document in requirements database (google docs)
• Creating a sketch
  • Tool is ??? Kevin's recommendation.

Work Follow-up Points

• Kevin - sketch tool
• Add titles to req'ts db
• Add prototype (Tom)

Suggestion Bin

• Other common names for pattern pages on the wiki