Green Building
A place to compile notes, debates, plans and images of ”green building” broadly construed.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Green Building 7 weeks agoA new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going looms ahead. What might spaces that acknowledge our vulnerability to decay look like?”
https://thisismold.com/series/metabolism/eaten-away-by-ants
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Eaten Away By Ants - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
From the Venice Architecture Biennale to construction studios in Ghana, anthropologist and writer Anand Pandian explores how architects and designers are creating in tandem with decay.
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I loved the bit about resting one’s hand on the earthen wall. That is a gesture that just does not happen with drywall lol, and I love how it thus intimates a whole different bodily way of being. Staring at walls (like staring into fires) is another lost art to be recuperated.
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
Green Building 8 weeks agohttps://www.hempbuildmag.com/home/patagonia-lower-sioux-movie-oscar-eligible
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Patagonia's "The Green Buffalo" won first prize in its first film festival in California, and may be on its way to the Oscars next year.
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Jessie Croteau posted an update in the group
Green Building 3 months agoContribute to a Virtual Roundtable Discussion, Collection of Written Contributions, and/or Collaborative Project Proposals on what the Ecological Design Collective can be during a time of reactionary politics.
Are you passionate about reimagining the future of our environment? The EDC invites you to engage in an exciting collaborative project:…
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Green Building 5 months ago“Imagine if all of the resources currently funding the world’s unnecessary cooling, heating, humidifying, and dehumidifying could be taken back and directed towards the things we most need and desire.”
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Since the 1990s, conservation scientists have worried about AC’s carbon footprint and thus started to question this approach. Newer research suggests the flat, unchanging museum environment is likely unnecessary for many types of collections.
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
Green Building 5 months agoaviva.com
Aviva calls for urgent action in creating climate-ready homes
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
Green Building 6 months ago6 months ago (edited)
Portugal’s “Banco de Materias” Gotta love Rick Steves and score another one for Southern European degrowth.
https://twitter.com/RickSteves/status/1839861921165783210
Portugal has a special love of glazed tiles — and if you own a protected house, you also own the responsibility of preserving its tiles. In Porto, there’s a warehouse for homeowners who need to replace a broken tile that's also a kind of museum. Join me at the “Bank of Materials” pic.twitter.com/WHaEH61jxG
— Rick Steves (@RickSteves) September 28, 2024
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
Green Building 7 months agoYes, air conditioning is a necessity now.
https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/yes-air-conditioning-is-a-necessity
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Yes, air conditioning is a necessity now.
But I think the reaction to Stan Cox's article is a bit harsh.
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I appreciate this riff on the Cox piece, which I read and thought about when it came out in the NYT. This line is helpful, in moderating the debate and connecting it to the stuff we’ve been thinking about: “we have to design our cities and our buildings to use AC sparingly, carefully, and equitably.”
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Michael Degani posted an update in the group
Green Building 7 months ago7 months ago (edited)
An Ode to Kneading Dough
In his chapter on
the soft matter of the earth, Bachelard sees the workings of oils,
creams and doughs as derivatives from what he calls an ideal of primary
‘paste’, ‘the perfect synthesis of stiffness and softness, a marvellous
equilibrium of yielding and resisting forces’ (Bachelard 1948: 78).
Bachelard’s…-
Fascinating to think with. Reminds me of what ploughmen used to tell me in south India many years ago, when I was doing my dissertation fieldwork, that the well worked mud of a wetland paddy field should be thick but light, like yogurt, with that kind of surface tension, that way of holding together.
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Tarini Monga posted an update in the group
Green Building 7 months ago7 months ago (edited)
Saw this exhibition titled, ‘Closer to Nature’ at Berlinische Gallery on building with alternative materials such as clay, wood and even fungi!
I was fascinated by the texture of this modular structure. It felt soft like the top of a mushroom yet rigid. While it raises questions on scalability and technique, I am curious to see how the…
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More about this Berlin-based collective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsLhYHo62I
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That’s very cool @tarini thanks for sharing it. It reminds me of David Benjamin’s project for Moma. Boy, mushrooms are THE companion species (or maybe totem?) for the Anthropocene, huh? https://www.archdaily.com/521266/hy-fi-the-organic-mushroom-brick-tower-opens-at-moma-s-ps1-courtyard
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