http://inhabitat.com/self-sufficient-brick-home-in-china-relies-on-pigs-for-energy/
The design for this building encorporates the usual sustainable principles to make the building comfortable and thus reduce the usual cost to the comunities pocket and to the environment that is associated with normal builds.
The structure is mud walls around a concrete frame providing natural temperature stability. This is assisted by the building’s second exterior envolope of a lattice of bricks also providing shade and natural ventilation to the interior. On a wide staircases for crops will be planted in the temperature controled cilemet, providing more variation and stability to food stocks. In the rainy season the water is collected from the roof and filters down to be stored for the rest of the year. Finally any exrtra provision is provided by an underground biogas boiler that runs on pig waste collected from the village.
Lin's design won this year's AR House award and while this is all really cool, I just don't understand why it can't be done everywhere.
China is brutally poor. This wee village probably collectivly makes less in a generation than I make in a year. Now, I'm not a dick, I'm super glad that infrastructure is being gifted to make peoples lives better but I cant help thinking that it just stinks a little bit. (no pig poop connection intended)
I wanted to use the word 'rad' when describing this building but I'm a synic, and this building in not that rad. It all feels like a bit of an experiment. Like the guys that built it are thinking 'wow, mud is an amazing insulator? Who would have thought it!' It's not like indiginus architecture of the world is holding some kinda secret. It's just no one can be bothered changing for the better. Appart from the bio gas burner nothing here is new tech, in fact bio fule is no new tech either!
What is boils down to is that I can't help I feel like all the guys are sitting around the western countries saying, 'o yeah, that's great for the folk who cant afford electricity or basic maintance, but here, we're loaded. Just build how ever you like and we'll tear it down once something else comes along.'
What to do...
The 'House For All Seasons' is a comunity center in the in the north-eastern of China. The Shijia Village, being held up as a model to encourage village residents to be less dependent on the outside world, everyone in their place, etc...
Any way, Hong Kong-based architect John Lin, worked with Hong Kong University to create this self-reliant building with the hope of developing an innovative collection of homes that are self sustaining (the article I read said 'generate thier own energy' but I feel like thats a bit miss leading).
The design for this building encorporates the usual sustainable principles to make the building comfortable and thus reduce the usual cost to the comunities pocket and to the environment that is associated with normal builds.
The structure is mud walls around a concrete frame providing natural temperature stability. This is assisted by the building’s second exterior envolope of a lattice of bricks also providing shade and natural ventilation to the interior. On a wide staircases for crops will be planted in the temperature controled cilemet, providing more variation and stability to food stocks. In the rainy season the water is collected from the roof and filters down to be stored for the rest of the year. Finally any exrtra provision is provided by an underground biogas boiler that runs on pig waste collected from the village.
Lin's design won this year's AR House award and while this is all really cool, I just don't understand why it can't be done everywhere.
China is brutally poor. This wee village probably collectivly makes less in a generation than I make in a year. Now, I'm not a dick, I'm super glad that infrastructure is being gifted to make peoples lives better but I cant help thinking that it just stinks a little bit. (no pig poop connection intended)
I wanted to use the word 'rad' when describing this building but I'm a synic, and this building in not that rad. It all feels like a bit of an experiment. Like the guys that built it are thinking 'wow, mud is an amazing insulator? Who would have thought it!' It's not like indiginus architecture of the world is holding some kinda secret. It's just no one can be bothered changing for the better. Appart from the bio gas burner nothing here is new tech, in fact bio fule is no new tech either!
What is boils down to is that I can't help I feel like all the guys are sitting around the western countries saying, 'o yeah, that's great for the folk who cant afford electricity or basic maintance, but here, we're loaded. Just build how ever you like and we'll tear it down once something else comes along.'
What to do...
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