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Reataing wall time lapse construction - 0 views

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wall retaining drainage Windsor Block fire Stone Earth Blend

shared by cosimogirolamo on 19 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • cosimogirolamo on 19 Apr 12
     
    This difficult project located in Windham was quite a job. Interstate Landscape started with the removal of an old deteriorating timber wall. The homeowner wanted to create more living space in their back yard so after the wall was removed we excavated back 8ft of the hillside and removed about 120 yards of fill. When we were excavating we ran into three large patches of ledge that had to be removed. We then jack hammered and removed the ledge making way for the preparation of the base of the new wall. Once the base was completed, construction of the segmental retaining wall began. In total 400 face feet of three and six inch Highland Stone Earth Blend was used to construct the wall. After the wall was completed, base prep and installation of 800 square feet of Genest Baxter and Acadia stone pavers were used to construct two patios and connecting walkways. A Genest Windsor Block fire pit with metal liner was also constructed in one of the patios. The patio and walkway areas were lined with 400 lineal feet of Rinox Belmont Border. To top the project off 900 square feet of sod from Tuckahoe Turf was installed. This was a tough and challenging job but we feel the end result looks great!
Svitol Naos

Ecotecture | What is Ecotecture? Journal of ecological design - 3 views

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ecological design

shared by Svitol Naos on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • What is Ecotecture? Ecotecture is the art and science of designing human systems that are integrated, functionally and aesthetically, with natural ecosystems
  • While this chapter focuses on human habitation systems- dwellings, communities, and cities- the design principles learned by studying ecosystems can also be applied to transportation, industrial, communication, and even economic and social systems.
  • The word "ecotecture" is a combination of the words "ecology," meaning the totality or pattern of relations between living organisms and their environment, and "architecture,"
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  • Only extreme climatic changes or other extraordinary conditions cause a large, stabilized ecosystem
  • the way nature "designs" its systems is that natural ecosystems are our best models of sustainability. Using only the sun's energy and a handful of simple chemicals as building blocks, life has found the means to sustain itself, by organizing into ecosystems, on all but the most inhospitable portions of the planet. Large scale ecosystem can remain stable, that is, sustain themselves in a state of dynamic equilibrium, for tens of thousands of year
  • defines as the art and science of building.
  • No matter how well established an ecosystem is, its organisms can tolerate only a certain amount of change.
  • If a major ecosystem is destroyed by events on a regional or planetary scale its territory is normally occupied by new organisms
  • The basic functional relationships between the three groups of organisms which comprise any ecosystem- producers, consumers and decomposers- have existed everywhere on the planet and throughout the history of life
  • While the structure of ecosystems has provided stability, the capacity to evolve has enabled life to meet the ongoing challenges of changing conditions.
  • to break down to the extent that most or all of its plants, animals, and microorganisms disappear and the system cannot repair or regenerate itself.
  • By contrast to natural systems, human systems have rarely been sustainable. Nor have they had to.
  • During most of humanity's tenancy on earth
  • resources and space aplenty have been readily available
  • The earth's riches, relative to humanity's population and expectations, were more than sufficient to provide not only for our survival but, as we have become increasingly efficient at manipulating nature and extracting her resources, for the doubling and redoubling of our population to the point where we have occupied the entire planet and become its dominant consumer.
  • In almost every instance, the means which humans have thus far devised to provide their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and luxuries are dependent on a one-way flow of energy, materials, and living substance from nature toward human society. Today, most of the materials which humans do return to nature are true waste, in the sense that they are either so degraded or concentrated that they are toxic or that they will not biodegrade in a reasonable length of time and simply pile up, hoarding their stored energy rather than releasing it back into the environment for reuse
  • Nature, as we shall see, has evolved a much more sustainable survival strategy of balancing its production and consumption by recirculating resources within local ecosystems and throughout the biosphere, or global ecosystem
  • Although the human strategy of providing for ourselves at the expense of the planet's well being has generally worked until now, it is clear that our ecological bank
  • It is said that we have been living on the non renewable principle of nature's savings account- guzzling oil, destroying forests, soils, and oceans- rather than the renewable interest of biofuels and sustainable forestry, fisheries and agriculture
  • As human and natural systems co-evolve toward full integration, the artificial, perceptual distinction which has separated the two will fade, and the recognition will grow that there is in fact but one planetary ecosystem which includes humans among its many interrelating and cooperating species.
  • The vision of ecotecture- a world in which humans dwell in sustainable harmony with nature- and the general approach
  • Svitol Naos on 08 May 12
     
    Some information regarding EcoTecture!
  • cosimogirolamo on 09 May 12
  • Svitol Naos on 09 May 12
     
    Thx! Cosmico!!! :D :D
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