POST CRASH- papers and projects
Post Crash: When all systems have collapsed, and we would have to rebuild and manage building stock following closed cycle rules, sets an example of how we should transform our approach already today.
Papers and projects under the "Post Crash" approach have now been collected under two new sections.
"The District of Tomorrow"
The District of Tomorrow is a very exciting project by the University of applied sciences 'ZUYD", in Heerlen, Netherlands. Its establishing a small neighbourhood of houses and an office, completely in line with the closing cycle principles described elswhere on these pages. For graduation students of building and architecture have to design the different projects, and a jury chooses the best design. The year after its constructed by pupils of the construction craftsmen schools as a learning environment. Together with professional stakeholders the research is implemented for the realisation. I was lucky to get involved in this project, and to be able to steer and contribute, by an appointment as Lector Gebouwde Omgeving ( professor of applied science Built Environment) at the Zuyd University. The project is under way, and first results will become available in 2009. See for a short overview this website:
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Updating
Has been a while since I added a new column. Not that I had no inspiration, but that went to other projects....
I am now testing sending videos and twitters from interesting meetings, and announce research questions that come up during development of the wijk van Morgen, District of tomorrow, and other projects. below is a test box with these texts. Lets see if I can update it regularly....
Sustainable housing: implementing a conceptual design. The Dutch expert team has brought together the knowledge, based on 15 years of experience in the Netherlands, and practiced in several projects , national and international, in this new book.
SB10 Western Europe
Towards 0-impacts building and environments
11-12-13 October 2010 , Maastricht
SB10 Euregion, organised by 4 organisation from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, has chosen to concentrate on what we call the "0-options": Looking forward to the transition to make, we focus for instance on energy neutral cities, 0- energy buildings, 0-water districts . Project developers and cities more and more choose for these kind of approaches in our region, and guidance is highly needed. How to guide , assess, define, implement projects that strive for a 0-option in one or all of the resources? One other issue is typical for this region: Some towns face a shrinking population… How to deal with this in establishing sustainability, it's a chance as well as a constraint. Experiences will be reported to the global level.
SB10 Conference Maastricht
loading station for electric cars on Solar energy in the District of Tomorrow. The 1st in The Netherlands.
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