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Boulder Affordable Housing Project
Bold
& Sustainable
A
component kit in an ecologically viable green house
that facilitates residents easily reconfiguring their
private and public spaces to meet their living, work,
life-style, and economic requirements as these factors
change
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large earth-shelter greenhouse glazing system
that acts like an energy environment value.
The interior is made up of societies of
approximately 125 persons each. Each society is
composed of a number of self-organized affinity
family groups. |
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the greenhouse, the is a module system based on
the hexagon. All prefabricated components relate
to this module which can generate multiple shapes
horizontally and up to three levels, vertically,
in a variety of places with the sloping greenhouse
membrane. |
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Shell (boundary of the system) and what
it does: The boundary of the structure is
made of of four key elements. The heat sink,
earth berms, entries and the glazed membrane. |
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is Langdon Morris making a point about the modular
units and how they compose living units of various
configurations. Langdon worked as co-designer
and project manager of the project. |
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This
concept is practical for today’s economy.
Recent developments in glazing materials provide
robust capability for greenhouse energy management
and ambiant light control. New “smart”
systems can both communicate community adapted
“swarming” rules and account, bill
and credit each individual and living unit according
to their actual usage of space, materials, energy
and tools.
Space
framing techniques and wall component systems
have reached a sufficient degree of maturity
for economical use at this scale of application.
Co-housing
and other ownership strategies have been developed
and tested offering a variety of legitimate
options. The home-office is finally coming into
greater practice offering economy and greater
amenity.
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result is an organic community/ecology/economy.
A “replacement” community (Jacobs)
that is emergent and co-adaptive with the global
social/economic environment. |
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is me at the wall. Langdon is kneeling. The WorkWall
is the first one built. This session, in 1980,
was when the basic schema of the project was worked
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Matt
Taylor
Palo Alto
October 23, 2001
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SolutionBox
voice of this document:
VISION • STRATEGY • EVALUATION
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October 26, 2001
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(note:
this document is about 20% finished)
Matt
Taylor 615 720 7390
me@matttaylor.com
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