Category: green design
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Charlottesville VA Architect Chris Hays’ Interview with Home Style Green
Charlottesville VA architect Chris Hays talks with broadcaster Matthew Cutler-Welsh about how homes can improve your life.
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Allison Ewing Shares Her Green Design Expertise at Hanley Wood’s Vision 2020 Symposium
She discusses why the building is at a Darwinian crossroads and it’s time to evolve an Architecture of the Fittest.
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Shape in Context
The natural world has many examples of adaptation to climate. The northern white-tailed deer has a lower surface area to volume ratio than does its more diminutive southern cousin and radiates less body heat per unit of mass, allowing it to stay warmer in the colder climate.
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Engaging the Developer
The developer-builder operates under a series of environmental pressures the most important of which is to sell homes while making a profit. The Developer-Builders consider first costs, first because profit equals marketability less first costs.
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The Elephant in the Room
Those committed to changing the business-as-usual of the industry must define a new species of building, one that operates at scale.
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The Butterfly Effect
If a single flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado, so also can all the previous and subsequent flaps of its wings…