Popular in Europe for decades...starting to catch on in the rest of the world. The price of a natural swimming pool are comparable to an inground pool, yet maintenance costs are much less. Have you ever thought about how many pounds of chemicals go into a typical swimming pool? Let nature do the work for free.
Dirt cheap....earthbag building is also known as superadobe, flexible-form rammed earth or sandbag construction. Whatever you call it, it is earthquake resistant, flood resistant, hurricane resistant, fire resistant and termite proof.
Flooding is a natural function of rivers. Sea levels are predicted to rise. There are two types of floating homes, permanently floating homes and homes that float only when flood waters swell, but sit on the ground during the dry season. Requiring the later on new construction within floodplains, and considering same for threatened shorelines, is one way to plan for the future. Although floating homes near the coast need protected waters, wave attenuation through wave walls and dykes (as used in Europe) are a future possibility. Inaction is costly. Some inspiration for those on waterways...
Cardboard reuse -- turn your cardboard into chairs, tables or bookshelves. With some used cardboard, tape, earth-friendly glue, scissors and a utility knife you could furnish your entire home...
Plastic Waste Lighting...
"Re-use as a design tool (and material) is still extremely under explored, and it holds so much potential – both as a source of raw material and as a beautiful limitation." Heath Nash
There are numerous builders around the world filling up used plastic bottles with mud or sand and creating schools, stores, homes, greenhouses... The possibilities are endless. Lots of pictures to inspire...
In the future; will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions... If we compost our waste, give up plastics and petroleum, grow hydrophonically...what would our new footprint be? More photos...
Are wooden bathtubs environmentally positive? If you grew the bamboo or cedar in your backyard and then made it yourself- definitely! These examples might not be the greenest and they cost a pretty penny, but it must feel wonderful to bath in wood. In the past bathtubs were made of wood, marble or ceramic tile. Cast-iron starting in the 1880s, then enamel over steel...now mostly formed acrylic, fiberglass or porcelain on steel. Wood holds heat longer than other tub materials. Unfinished wood tubs must be used regularly or kept partially filled with a bit of water to prevent them from drying out and warping or shrinking.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser Architecture
The father of the Green Roof... Born in Austria 1928, died at Sea 2000.
Hundertwasser- Model for Hohe-Haine (High Groves), Dresden, 1998. hundertwasser.at "The colourful, the abundant, the manifold, is always better than mediocre grey and uniformity."
Hundertwasser- KunstHaus, Wien, 1989-91. www.hundertwasser.at Note the uneven floor- "an uneven floor is a melody to the feet."
Hundertwasser- Forest Spiral of Darmstadt, 1998-2000. hundertwasser.at
Hundertwasser- Forest Spiral of Darmstadt, 1998-2000, 105 residential units. hundertwasser.at “Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at
least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy.
The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our
civilisation.”
Hundertwasser- Green Roofed Forest Spiral of Darmstadt, 1998-2000. hundertwasser.at
Hundertwasser- Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna, 1983-86. hundertwasser.at Note the tree growing out of window. He published a manifesto; 'Your window right – your tree duty' "A journey into the land of creative architecture where there are window rights and tree tenants and uncontrolled irregularities; uneven floors, woodlands on the roof, spontaneous vegetation and barriers of beauty..." Hundertwasser believed all tenants should have the right to reach out their window and paint their space as they wish.
Hundertwasser on the Eurovision programme 'Make a Wish' with Dietmar Schönherr, Dusseldorf, 1972, explaining green roofs. www.hundertwasser.at
Hundertwasser- Thermal Village, Blumau, Austria, 1993-97. hundertwasser.at
Hundertwasser- Thermal Village, Blumau, Austria, 1993-97. hundertwasser.at For a visit to this green eco-lodge- www.blumau.com
Hundertwasser- Thermal Village, Blumau, Austria, 1993-97. hundertwasser.at Compost toilets fertilize the green roof, closing the waste cycle. "Man must take care that the cycle functions."
Hundertwasser- Model for above Thermal Village, Blumau. hundertwasser.at
Hundertwasser- Kawakawa Public Toilets, New Zealand, 1999. hundertwasser.at Hundertwasser often built uneven floors. He felt a flat floor was built for machines and was never meant for people. Photo: Mike Steadman flickr.com
Hundertwasser- Kawakawa Public Toilets, New Zealand, 1999. hundertwasser.at
Artist & architect Friedrich Stowasser (1928 - 2000) changed his
name to Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser which roughly
translates as 'Peace-rich or Peaceful,Rainy day, Darkly multicolored,Hundred water.'
Hundertwasser had an Austrian Catholic father who died when he was a small child and a Jewish mother. He and his mother escaped the fate of much of
her family by posing as Catholics. He traveled extensively as a young
man and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, but left after a
day. For years he lived, traveled the world, and painted on a
reconstructed salt hauler sailboat which he called the “Regentag” (rainy
day). He also owned a farm cottage in northern France and a cabin in
New Zealand. Hundertwasser felt a special connection to New Zealand, and
was buried there when he died in the year 2000.
"When man thinks he has to correct
nature, it is an irreparable mistake every time. A community should not
consider it an honour how much spontaneous vegetation it destroys; it
should rather be a point of honour for every community to protect as
much of its natural landscape as possible. The brook, the river, the
swamp, the riverside wetlands as they are, the way God created them,
must be sacred and inviolable to us. Correcting a stream only has evil
effects, which are expensive in the end: the lowering of water tables,
the destruction of forests, the transformation of large areas into
steppes, no regeneration of the water, which runs off too fast. The
river wetlands can no longer fulfill their sponge-like function: the
absorption of excess water and slow feedback in dry spells, like a good
piggy bank in times of emergency. The regulated brook becomes a sewer.
Fish die, and there are no fish in the brook because they cannot swim
through the regulated channel. Floods, with all their devastating
consequences, all the more after regulation. Because too much water runs
off too quickly, converging in great quantity without any chance of
being absorbed by the earth and the vegetation. Only a stream with a
high waterline flowing irregularly can produce pure water, regulate the
water household and conserve the fish and animal populations to the
benefit of man and his agriculture. Now, almost too late, this age-old
adage is being recognised and the courses of rivers and streams, which
had been straightened in concrete channels, are being destroyed in order
to restore the previous irregular state. What irony! So why regulate a stream if you have to deregulate it afterwards?"
@ Kirsten Reply #3 on : Sat April 21, 2012, 07:53:17
It appears there were three documentary films made about Hundertwasser’s life, both the 1966 and 1998 films by Ferry Redax. The more well known documentary short: “Hunderwassers Regentag” (“Hunderwasser's Rainy Day) of 1972, directed by Peter Schamoni. I am afraid I cannot find a way to view it. Here is the FB page for the movie though: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hundertwassers-Rainy-Day/124331877653551
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Re: Hundertwasser Architecture Reply #2 on : Sat April 21, 2012, 04:36:40
Love it; do you know where I can find the documentary in its entirety?
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www.jagrhomes.com Reply #1 on : Fri October 07, 2011, 16:56:41
Beautiful green building images, thanks for sharing!
Popular in Europe for decades...starting to catch on in the rest of the world. The price of a natural swimming pool are comparable to an inground pool, yet maintenance costs are much less. Have you ever thought about how many pounds of chemicals go into a typical swimming pool? Let nature do the work for free.
Dirt cheap....earthbag building is also known as superadobe, flexible-form rammed earth or sandbag construction. Whatever you call it, it is earthquake resistant, flood resistant, hurricane resistant, fire resistant and termite proof.
Flooding is a natural function of rivers. Sea levels are predicted to rise. There are two types of floating homes, permanently floating homes and homes that float only when flood waters swell, but sit on the ground during the dry season. Requiring the later on new construction within floodplains, and considering same for threatened shorelines, is one way to plan for the future. Although floating homes near the coast need protected waters, wave attenuation through wave walls and dykes (as used in Europe) are a future possibility. Inaction is costly. Some inspiration for those on waterways...
Cardboard reuse -- turn your cardboard into chairs, tables or bookshelves. With some used cardboard, tape, earth-friendly glue, scissors and a utility knife you could furnish your entire home...
Plastic Waste Lighting...
"Re-use as a design tool (and material) is still extremely under explored, and it holds so much potential – both as a source of raw material and as a beautiful limitation." Heath Nash
There are numerous builders around the world filling up used plastic bottles with mud or sand and creating schools, stores, homes, greenhouses... The possibilities are endless. Lots of pictures to inspire...
In the future; will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions... If we compost our waste, give up plastics and petroleum, grow hydrophonically...what would our new footprint be? More photos...
Are wooden bathtubs environmentally positive? If you grew the bamboo or cedar in your backyard and then made it yourself- definitely! These examples might not be the greenest and they cost a pretty penny, but it must feel wonderful to bath in wood. In the past bathtubs were made of wood, marble or ceramic tile. Cast-iron starting in the 1880s, then enamel over steel...now mostly formed acrylic, fiberglass or porcelain on steel. Wood holds heat longer than other tub materials. Unfinished wood tubs must be used regularly or kept partially filled with a bit of water to prevent them from drying out and warping or shrinking.
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