Design Journal Entry - Module 1

Enter (or choose) your name in the Your Name field above.

Then, describe your design inspirations and big feature ideas using text , images, web links, movies... Whatever media works best to express your ideas!

Big Picture Ideas

• Passive Design
• Blending in with Environment
• Solar
• Sustainable Roofs
• Greenhouse Sunspace
• “Stepping Stones”

Passive Design Strategies

• thermal mass (each as exhibitions)
• stone floors
• trombe walls
• water walls
• South facing windows → key element, make them beautiful and operable
• Passive floorplan
• organized so that winter sun penetrates into daytime use spaces
• equipment placement on North face of building
• capture heat waste
• built into earth for earth sheltering
• sunspace
• operable walls
• natural ventilation

Blending in with Environment

• Flowing out from hill
• use natural, local materials (site dependent)
• lots of natural trees
• openable walls
• hard to tell where building begins/ends with nature

Solar

• photovoltaic panels
• independent of grid
• sell back unused energy

Sustainable Roofs

• each roof acts also as a balcony and an exhibition space
• green roofs → each can be a different garden
• water capture, reduce heat island effect, carbon capture
• cool roofs
• solar roofs

Greenhouse Sunspace

• Greenhouse in the midst of the building
• acts as a sunspace
• Tree nursery
• recovery dying tree species
• once they are big enough → send them to get planted
• constant regrowth
• botanical exhibition
• carbon capture

“Stepping Stones”

• protruding stones (blocks) from hillside → inspiration from nature
• stairs winding down from each ‘stone’
• each acts as a balcony/exhibition
• gentle slope down to level ground
• greenhouse sunspace stone in center

Inspiration Photos

“Stepping Stones”

Natural:

Example through Lego House by BIG

Earth Sheltering:

Green Roof/Embed in environment:

Greenhouse:

Journal Notes/Thoughts/Preliminary Sketches